Alexa Chung Quotes

When I fly, it takes me two, three days to recovery, to be good physically.

I've learned how to sleep on airplanes. When I'm taking a trans-Atlantic flight or going to a different continent, I will always read because reading puts me to sleep. When you watch a movie, you have all that light coming to your eyes, but with reading, I can't get through 15 or 20 pages.

On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

I would hate to be on a plane every day.

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

Transatlantic flights are unflattering. Hairstyles flop. Makeup melts away. Faces shrivel or swell from dehydration, and contact lenses give way to spectacles.

Everyone keeps asking me when I have time to rest. I'll tell you when: I get all my sleep on planes. If the flight is five hours, my nap is five hours! I'll sleep through the whole flight.

When I go to the U.S., the flights are long, and they do affect the body clock, but they are worth it.

I'm halfway around the world with dozens of bags, feeling like all 4 members of Color Me Badd.

Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.

You see, it's essential that one of us stays awake during the flight [ballon]. So, rather than using the comfortable Virgin seats which we used to cross the Atlantic, we've asked British Airways for two of theirs.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico.

I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.

I work really, really hard and it's challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you're supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot.

I don't really like long flights any more - I find them too tiring. Flying always involves the same things these days - huge crowds at airports, waiting around, late take-offs, weather problems, and so on. I don't really enjoy travelling. I don't imagine anyone does except young children.

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.

If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

I'm generally so disoriented during the week about what I'm doing and where I am - I travel a lot - that when I'm home on a Sunday, I typically try to sleep in as much as I can.

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

My sleep is very important, and I have to have at least eight hours every night in order to function properly the next day. Unfortunately, flying through several time zones makes me disorientated, and it takes several days to readjust.

I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you're not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.

Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.