David Mamet Quotes

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

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

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

It wears on your soul when you take on the mental state of a dark character.

She asked if we were calm enough for her to take off the cuffs, and McMurphy nodded. He had slumped over with his head hung and his elbows between his knees and looked completely exhausted--it hadn't occurred to me that it was just as hard for him to stand straight as it was for me.

Being in a person's head for five months, where they're so hateful, is kind of exhausting.

Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don't want to waste time on drama beforehand.

People are trying to grab every part of you, so it's really hard to focus.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

Seven years without a break really takes a toll on you, and you don't even realize it. You're affected by other people, and after a while, sometimes they have love for you, and sometimes they don't.

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

I think it's an interesting thing to watch when a person is trying to keep it together and then ultimately when they do lose it a little bit.

The General is suffering from mental saddle sores.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

My fear with 'Lear' was that I would not have the physical or vocal strength. But this play, it's all in your head. That was one of the really interesting things when we were rehearsing it: We were all exhausted because it was all up here.

To say I am not mentally tired in ways and exhausted in ways would be a lie.

I know my energy level is unlike others. I know that my capacity to really think fast is unlike others, but I also know the price that comes with it.

Just emotionally, as amazing as it is to win the World Cup, it's emotionally draining in many ways.

To be a supersub is mentally hard.

People are fragile. Our brains are fragile and you can only abuse them for so long.

The 'Demon King' takes out a lot out of Finn Balor the man emotionally and mentally.

If you make one thing your life and soul - as much as football is my career and main focus - then it turns into a very mentally unstable place to be.

Centre-back takes more out of you mentally than physically.

If this world hasn't made you semi-mad, then you ain't living in it.