Midrash Quotes

It's my job, but I think it is too much.

I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, 'Wow, I worked 100 hours last week, and I couldn't even have this thing that I really wanted.'

I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.

The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.

My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

I am tired of hustling.

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

I was working, like, 14-hour days on 'Fargo,' and now if I schedule more than two things in a day, I'm like, 'Whoa, you guys. That's two train rides, and I have to plan for an hour-and-a-half lunch with my cat.'

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.

I'm working myself to death.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.