Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

There are certain times you want to be here and there are certain times you want to just go. And when you go, it's usually so exhausting you have to check into a hospital when you come home!

Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.

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.

My only time off is when I'm sleeping.

I'm quite well-rehearsed in having mental days; being awake at the crack of dawn and still having to be awake late at night.

There's no narcotic like exhaustion.

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

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.

I'm extremely busy and running around requires a lot of energy.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

The worst thing in the world is to be tired.

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

When you're entertaining all day long and that's your work, you end up really very tired. You don't have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones.

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

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.

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.

You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

I don't usually have time for TV. When I get home at night, I just want to fall asleep.

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is - well, anything. I just want to sleep. I crash out hard every day at 'Common Law.' I definitely lost a couple years of my life just on the fatigue factor on the first season.

If you don't get tired or bored then there is something wrong with you - you are not human. People maybe don't realize that. Players try to hide it and try to be the perfect role model, but it is not always so easy.

I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out.