Ron Moody Quotes

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

When you can't cope with change, you feel overwhelmed, and you look for a simple solution.

I've been one of those people that hold on to a little bit more stress than others. People take certain situations a little bit differently.

The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.

The thing is, you don't ever want to have pressure turn to stress.

I go to award ceremonies, but I always like to be in my world. That's the only place I can control where I won't get upset.

I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie.

If I think even a week ahead, I get terrified. My big thing is trying to enjoy the moment as much as I can.

Some people have issues in their past that might make them tweak out at certain moments, but it's possible to snap back and be a real human being.

I'm not like Woody Allen like, "Oh my god what's going to happen? Ooh Ooh Oohhh." I'm just high-strung. So I do need to do a lot of stuff.

I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that." "You don't have to go to the party. You don't have to go to the ceremony. You don't have to do anything at all." "But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

People handle stress in different ways.

It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.