Alan Ball Quotes

The Kurt thing has burdened me so much.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

I feel the pressure.

I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

I don't think I'm an unhappy person. It's just an intensity, not a depressive thing. It's just not having enough layers of skin. It's exhausting.

I feel there is this looming cloud over my life.

You ever get that feeling that you just have too many hits?

I can tell you from experience that when you get that pent-up and crazed, it can be distracting.

Sometimes in life you reach your breaking point, when you just can't deal with something anymore.

I was under so much pressure. I often felt scared.

I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all

Please don't tell me to relax, it's only my tension that's holding me together.

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.

I bear a little more than I can bear.

I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

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

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

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 wake up every morning and have a pile of problems.