Top 170 Stressful Quotes

It’s a weird business. You’re trying to write something that’s built on magic, which is pretty stressful.

It’s been really stressful being on the road a lot, especially when you’re a dad. You miss your son a lot. But you gotta make it work because you get to live a good life. I have to sacrifice.

There’s a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It’s still troubling and stressful to me.

It’s incredibly stressful when the person you love is having a child.

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

It’s always stressful working on a new piece, but it concentrates the energy.

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don’t ever really get stressed out about the food.

Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking ‘hot’ which can be stressful and put you in your head.

Everyone always tells you about how amazing recording their first album was and how they’ll always look back on the ‘process’ with fond memories. I will look back on it as an extremely stressful time that somehow also managed to be extremely boring.

Everybody’s going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it’s a stressful time in everybody’s lives.

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.

My time at Barnard was fun but stressful. I transferred there from the acting conservatory at NYU, and my Rolling Around On the Floor Pretending to Be a Lion classes didn’t translate into many academic credits.

I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.

I’m totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It’s stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.

When you’re trying to be a parent and a businessperson at the same time, that is the most stressful thing you could do.

I love writing, and I love postproduction. That’s great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to really put the film together, finally. The shooting of it is the most stressful part of the process.

Retraining for the precariat is stressful and demoralising; often, they learn new tricks only to find them obsolescent or unwanted.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

There aren’t many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that’s what I’ve been scared of. What you don’t realise is how much you’re going to get back.

To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.

When I walk on stage, it’s a release valve for me. Life is stressful anyway, so therefore, when I walk on stage, it releases all those stressful situations, and I feel good about myself.

Breast-feeding was so stressful for me. I kept on clenching and pushing my tongue against the bottom teeth, so they started to move toward an underbite.

It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.

A film set is a workplace for me; it’s my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.

Auditioning for people you know is way more stressful than auditioning for people you don’t know. And you have to pretend that you don’t know because they’re just staring at you.

Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.

New York can be a tad stressful.

The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It’s your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It’s a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it.

Maybe I am a bit unusual here, but I am less stressed if I have my phone with me. Because I can spend like an hour in the morning taking care of everything instead of I sit there and wonder what I missed or wonder what’s happening. So it’s way less stressful for me to just answer my phone.

I’ve now learned that the most stressful day of filming a TV series is the first day of a new episode. You haven’t quite banked the one you just wrapped and are wondering, ‘Did I do that right?’ ‘Could I have done that better?’

High school is already an academic and social pressure cooker, and the forces that make it stressful are amplified for queer students.

The stressful time is the blank page at the beginning. When you’re starting to see things being made flesh, and you’re able to respond to that flesh, that’s really exciting.

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

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.

Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story… travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment.

I like the idea of marriage. I like the idea that I have a best friend. It’s just really comforting. I remember being single and trying to date, and it was just stressful and hard. It wasn’t fun.

It used to be that Denver was one of the most stressful cities to play because I was very nervous at coming home.

It’s just a challenge doing live television every week; you know, it’s a challenge to come up with new material every week and stuff like that and try to keep it current, you know what I mean? Like, it’s just, you know, it’s a kind of a stressful environment.

As stressful as it can be trying to plan out your moves and think about the race, I think I do better when I’m hanging out with friends and family and just jump in the race track and go for it.

I find shopping too stressful. I get hot and flustered and irritated and feel sick after I’ve bought something.

ECW was the most fun for me artistically. And then, WWE, it was also very fun, but that was part of it. It was also a very stressful, monotonous schedule. There was a lot of politics, adjusting to that, and I am not a politician, and I don’t play those games. So that was very frustrating for me as well.

Brooks Ashmanskas – rehearsing and putting on a show can be very stressful and exhausting, but Brooks makes every moment a joyride. His influence taught me to never take myself or what I’m doing too seriously.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Having a good defensive line allows you to play better because it’s less stressful in terms of defending.

The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.

On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.

Now-a-days we are part of a really stressful society. But if you look at North Indian households, especially Punjab, making light of every situation is a part of everything here.

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

Dance is such a stressful environment.

I’m in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it’s with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it’s to stay awake, either way it’s much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

Japanese of my generation try to get through life without stepping on anyone’s toes; in some ways that’s unnatural and stressful. The yakuza are different: They live short lives but live and die on their own terms – it’s exciting to portray that.

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.

You know I used to sit there and I’d go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you’d best believe I’m sleepin’.

Generally, we have competed with ourselves… because I feel that if I compete against somebody, it causes stress. I don’t want the process of growth to be stressful.

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that’s so stressful.