Keri Russell Quotes

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.

I don't think I can do this anymore.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.

What I'm like with lack of sleep is that I let the devil in, so if I'm tired the slightest thing will put me into a bad place.

There is mental as well as physical fatigue. You have to cry, scream, keep on repeating the same dialogue till you get it right.

Wow, you're never allowed to sleep late again. You're crankier than a fat guy in stilettos.

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep... having insomnia.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

I am very impatient.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don't take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is - well, anything. I just want to sleep. I crash out hard every day at 'Common Law.' I definitely lost a couple years of my life just on the fatigue factor on the first season.

I'm quite well-rehearsed in having mental days; being awake at the crack of dawn and still having to be awake late at night.

During finals week, I don't get a lot of sleep, and I tell myself, 'I can't do this anymore.'