Gemma Arterton Quotes

In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.

Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid weight of her arms, her veins bulging slightly with the pressure of her extreme weariness ... one day in January she drew a razor blade lightly across the inside of her arm, near the elbow, to see what would happen.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

I believe that if I come home from a stressful day on the set, I just have to leave it there.

There are things that I am doing apart from films to keep me normal. Otherwise, emotionally, it is very draining.

We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

I wake up in the night screaming sometimes when I've had a fight with my husband, more than with the company. I still sleep very well. I take it day by day. I am a very pragmatic person. That's how I survive.

I try to get enough sleep and exercise, try not to make mountains out of molehills, and vent a lot. I have a good team to support my work. I also do lots of mundane things, which will center me.

Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. And it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day.

Stress is not...a badge of courage

The more nervous you get, the more worried you get about something... Maybe you just need to take a nap.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!

You have to know your triggers for stress and then have rituals for combating them.

It's kind of a little fly-on-the-wall look at these people trying to stay sane.

More important, you have to stay happy and positive or the stress will kill you - but at least it will make you skinny

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

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

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.