James McAvoy Quotes

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that.

I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

Unfortunately these days, there is a hell of a lot that keeps me awake.

I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster.

I have trouble falling asleep. I have trouble shutting my mind off.

There are only three things that stop me sleeping: hunger, the odd bad dream and cramp in the arches of my feet - it's crippling, as if somebody's trying to tie your foot in a reef knot.

Sleepless nights I'm not a big fan of to be honest.

I have anxiety.

Sometimes I don't sleep well.

She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.

O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.

I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

I just can't relax. That's my problem.

I have major sleeping problems. I'd rather be up thinking about things than actually sleeping.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

I have always worried about things more than I should.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Now is the age of anxiety.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.

I wake up every morning with the worst anxiety. I don't know why. I have, like, a problem.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.