Top 170 Stressful Quotes

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
Daisaku Ikeda
I think leading up to the tour is the most stressful part because you barely have any time home.
Sharon Van Etten
I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it’s really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up is so stressful before you get on stage, but acting is a complete ensemble experience.
Kristen Schaal
I am very shy. It’s the most stressful thing to be in the public eye.
Sanam Saeed
I intend to get four people in a tent that I can attest is absolutely smaller than the Dragon spacecraft, on a mountain when it’s snowing out, and introduce everybody to some really stressful situations. We are all going to know each other incredibly well long before we ever strap into Dragon.
Jared Isaacman
Id been thinking about directing for a while. I write a lot, so I have a lot of scripts, and I have wanted to try this. I really enjoyed it, apart from directing myself – you kind of need another set of eyes on you, so that part was a little bit stressful.
Angus Macfadyen
Creating ‘Upgrade’ was really something I enjoyed even though it was stressful. I would do it all again.
Leigh Whannell
Comedy is important! When you're having a stressful day

Comedy is important! When you’re having a stressful day, and you come home, you want to watch something that makes you laugh.
Michael Cudlitz
I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character – ‘Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?’
Naomie Harris
Evidence shows that having even weak social connections in a stressful situation is really good for your health and your ability to handle that situation.
Jane McGonigal
I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it’s harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
Verite
Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that’s a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.
Sam Altman
‘Cuban Fury’ was a big production for a first time director to handle: I think it is very easy to become very stressful and for it to get the better of you.
Kayvan Novak
The COVID-19 crisis has presented disproportionate risks to Central Virginia’s seniors, and it has created extremely stressful situations for their families.
Abigail Spanberger
I was bullied by Subhash Ghai. He even took me to the court and wanted me to cancel my first show. It was quite stressful. He sent a message to all the producers that nobody should work with me.
Mahima Chaudhry
I’ve heard countless women – but not a single man – say to me, ‘I could never stand up before the Supreme Court; it would be way too stressful.’ But I’ve heard countless men, and very few women, say to me, ‘I would love to argue in front of the Court; that would be so exciting.’
Lisa Blatt
With my work, I always want to people to just forget about anything stressful going on in their lives and be fully entertained. Laughter is key. If they shed a tear or go home thinking about the play, that’s a bonus.
Del Shores
It’s stressful when you run a company.
Jenova Chen
I love my job. I don’t find it stressful, and I only took a rest because I didn’t find another club after Real. It was not something that I needed because of stress, because that is not a problem for me. I don’t have pressure. I like my job, and I know how it is. I have experience.
Carlo Ancelotti
It’s not a party unless I’m cooking. Some people find entertaining stressful, but it is therapeutic for me; I find it relaxing.
Eva Longoria
In an ideal world, we all walk out our door and we all feel the same way about going out to run an errand, going for a jog, whatever the case may be. That shouldn’t be a stressful thing.
Brad Stevens
It’s a little stressful to put down your phone in a little cubby and spend an hour with a barre teacher, but like, you know that it’s good for you.
Hallie Jackson
It’s quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.
Emma Watson
Stand up is the most stressful, and hosting and presenting a show has its own stresses, because you’ve got an audience which you’ve got to entertain as well as an audience at home.
Paddy McGuinness
I’m lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I’m happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It’s probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.
Grant Morrison
When things get stressful and crazy and you think to yourself, ‘When will this get easier?’ it won’t, because that’s what a career feels like.
Baron Vaughn
Women take fewer financial risks than men do, but not because we’re wusses. Both sexes secrete the hormone oxytocin in stressful situations, but women secrete more of it, which helps us stay calmer.
Jean Chatzky
Shopping for weddings can be really stressful, and not just for the bride!
Gok Wan
Running a marathon is a stressful event for your body, mind and spirit. But when you put yourself through that willingly, consciously and in a learning atmosphere, you begin to understand how to deal with any stressful situation in a way that does not drain you.
Milind Soman
For those who have served in combat, life is never the same. It puts the most stressful civilian situations into a whole different context.
Todd Wilcox
When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called ‘Pop It,’ where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It’s a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I’m stressed.
Jane McGonigal
There’s nothing more stressful than your stomach growling. But interestingly enough, some of my best writing came when I was poor and hungry – living off water and oatmeal, mind clear.
Chadwick Boseman
Go to a place where you’re not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.
Diane von Furstenberg
Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it’s a stressful environment… You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, ‘What am I doing here? I’m just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.’
Chris Evans
Using a smartphone for long hours is stressful, bad for the eyes and overall health. But a smartphone is a necessity today. You cannot do without it.
Bhushan Kumar
If you don’t believe there’s some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary – it’s not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn’t even know we’re here.
Michael Shannon
They look at what’s more important, like subjects to help with the SAT’s, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it’s different.
Justin Guarini
In my latter years I’ve decided that there’s too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it’s not for me anymore.
Max Greenfield
It's a little less stressful as a support act, because

It’s a little less stressful as a support act, because the headliner carries the majority of the weight. But as a headliner, we get to play a little bit longer.
Brantley Gilbert
The fact that insomnia is associated with depression suggests that sleep might help us deal with emotionally stressful or otherwise disruptive events.
Maria Konnikova
Cable TV? Stressful? Never.
Dana Bash
The 100m is never stressful.
Usain Bolt
My games are rather stressful games, where you have to play for a long time.
Hideo Kojima
It’s a no-win situation with politics; it’s always going to be stressful. I’m more into the comedy of life.
Jordan Peele
Sometimes reality T.V. can be stressful.
Carnie Wilson
Unless you’ve been in the job as a head coach, and certainly at the Premier League level and elite level, it’s stressful. You’re responsible for everything. You’re responsible for how the team plays, if they don’t turn up you’re responsible for that, your job is to get them playing.
Steve Nicol
Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It’s very stressful.
Jet Li
To make a movie is very stressful, especially when you work with your father. You want to think the movie is good. Even when I don’t work with my father, I want it to be good.
Louis Garrel
Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.
Seth Rogen
Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They’re nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.
Matt Ridley
An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.
Matthew Desmond
Filming TOWIE’ can be so stressful. It is in the contract everyone has to see a psychiatrist. You have to see them and get checked over before the series starts and at the end.
Megan McKenna
When I get really passionate about something, the audition process is really strenuous and hard on me because I feel so much for the project, and I become so attached to it. It’s hard. It’s stressful because you want it so badly, and you’re crafting this character that you’re falling in love with.
Lili Reinhart
I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote ‘Wuthering Heights,’ I told my boyfriend beforehand ‘I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.’ Actually once I was there, it was fine.
Kaya Scodelario
The stressful thing about being an actor is, like, you have to kind of audition again and again and again, you know? You go in one time, and you go in again for a director and then again for producers and then again and again and again.
Anthony Carrigan
I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously.
Mike White
Make no mistake, the days and hours before going into the ring can be stressful for any boxer. The bigger and tougher the fight the greater stress, But if a boxer knows he’s stepping out of his league it’s even worse.
Carl Froch