Rubens Barrichello Quotes

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Between the fundraising, being away from family, the environment of hyperpartisanship, Washington is really stressing people out.

After Euro 2012, I had very little holiday and almost no desire to play football. I was slipping into depression, from all the travelling.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.

Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily.

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.

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

There was a period of time during the 'Jagged Little Pill' era where I don't think I laughed for about two years. It was a survival mode, you know. It was an intense, constant, chronic over-stimulation and invasion of energetic and physical literal space.

Anytime you're away from your home filming, it messes with your head.

I suffer from everyday life.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

I get stressed out really easily.