Elaine Stritch Quotes

I don't travel so much now, I get tired

I honestly wear myself out walking around, fixing this and fixing that. Maybe that's why I like to work so much - so I can just get to that moment where I'm like, "Whoa." I have to be super tired and knocked out to stop!

I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.

It's nice to sit down when you're not working. I try to do it as often as possible.

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'.

When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.'

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

A typical off day for me, I'm hanging out at the house.

I've been working so hard that I'm exhausted... I feel I won't be able to do without a few weeks' rest, so I'm going off to see the sea.

There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

I'm young, and I'm fortunate to be in good health, although I do get tired. Sometimes my wife refers to me as Mr. Excitement because of the number of naps it takes to keep this going.

At some stage I'm going to have to say, 'Right, that's it. I'm stopping for a bit'.

Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.

When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.

Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.

We've all been tired and thought we wanted a long vacation when all we needed was a few days off, but didn't know it.

Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired.

Sometimes I snore, like when I get really tired.

After a really hectic week, I hate going out on a Friday evening, so I'll always opt for a night at home.

Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.

That's the thing I'm worst at: resting. I have to be forced to do it. Sometimes I think of loopholes. 'Oh, I'm just going for a walk, up a dune that's 45 degrees, but I'm walking, so it's not a workout.'

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while.