Christine Baranski Quotes

Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.

The only time I don't work is when I am asleep.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

I pushed myself way too hard during the first year of Veronica Mars and I got moody and run-down. Now I'll go to bed early instead of going out with friends. It's not always the most fun option, but I know I need at least eight hours of sleep to feel balanced.

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 had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.

The President is suffering from nervous exhaustion….He needs to rest for a considerable time.

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

Americans of all backgrounds and in all kinds of circumstances are stressed out by feeling overwhelmed and being over-committed.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit like a relationship. If you're always there, they can't desire you.

I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

We've all been tired and thought we wanted a long vacation when all we needed was a few days off, but didn't know it.

Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.

I don't think I can do this anymore.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.

President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?