Philippa Gregory Quotes

Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

Everyone thinks they can cure stress by adding to their schedule, like going to yoga. Oh, great - one more thing to feel guilty about when you can't do it.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

I don't torture myself.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

I wasn't enjoying golf much. I was kind of getting a little bit tired, I was getting a little bit moody, and I was constantly getting angry. That's not me. And when I saw that I knew I had to change.

I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.

Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather jealous of them.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

I'm a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional.

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

When emotions are deeply stirred, progress must be gradual.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back.

You have to find ways to find that center, to find that balance, to find sanity, because again, we are getting bigger, and people look at us that way. We have to find that new balance.

I was losing sight of myself and started to get anxiety and stress. You work at such a pace and you don't have time to sit with yourself and think.