Stressful Work Quotes

I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.

I don't like being in the service industry and having to deal with people yelling at me all the time. McDonald's was the hardest job I ever had - so I have a lot of respect for people who work in the fast food industry. Because it's a hard job.

Bankers don't get to do this. For all the hours, the late nights, lack of sleep and hours of pulling your hair out from dealing with 18- and 19-year-old kids, it's a pretty cool job.

Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously.

Truthfully, the process of making 22 episodes of television a year is not very pleasant.

Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

The second series of 'Fonejacker' almost killed me. It was incredibly intense.

The worst job I ever had was as a telemarketer for, oh, I don't know, I think I made it about 90 minutes. I quit before lunch. I went in around 10:30 or 11 and said, 'I can't do this.' It was horrific. I had too many people yell at me within that 90 minutes to be able to continue.

No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.

With The Reader, I'd just be shattered at the end of every day really. I wouldn't really want to talk. We kept saying, because we were in Berlin: "If we get back at a decent hour, let's go and have a glass of wine." We'd always think it would be a great idea, but then get to the end of the day and then go [acts drowsy and blabs]. It was very difficult for everybody.

Each time I work on a film, I say to myself, 'This is it. This is the end.' Because it is so stressful, it's like torture.

I would do prosthetics again, but not on a schedule like that [in Gigi Does It]. It was grueling and brutal and it almost killed me. That show almost killed me.

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.

People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.

When I do films, I get off-days. But, in theatre, there are back-to-back shows with non-stop rehearsals. It's too scary a thought.

I would not like to try any high stress job. Honestly, I wouldn't like something like a PR job. I can't diffuse situations.

Working with Woody [Allen] is like an emotional strip club without the cash.

When the fights were over for the second and third 'Matrix,' I thought, 'Okay, I never have to do that again.' It's incredibly stressful.

The worst job I ever had was working in the call center of an electric company. I sat in a tiny cubicle getting yelled at every day so I could earn minimum wage.

You know what, I'm happy to say that everything outside of 'Dexter' feels like a vacation, and I don't mean to say anything negative about the show. It's just a different kind of work. Emotionally it's taxing and complicated, and that's a great thing.

Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.

It's such an enormously challenging process to make any kind of television. It's stressful and works towards getting the best out of creative people.

Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.