Nikita Dutta Quotes

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.

Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.

I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after they've done a really demanding emotional and physical project. I wanted a break, to be honest with you, and I needed to recover.

Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.

I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

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

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.

I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.

Do whatever rejuvenates you. It might be a cooking class, cocktails with the girls, or just private time with the hubby. We all have our moments where we run out of steam because we've given everything we've got to everyone else. Whoever decided that was a good thing? It's not. Everyone needs to refuel.

I need some time to recover. I'm not a machine.

Seven years without a break really takes a toll on you, and you don't even realize it. You're affected by other people, and after a while, sometimes they have love for you, and sometimes they don't.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.

Everybody takes breaks, and I decided to take mine. I wanted a chance to wake up at two in the afternoon and not be a subject of entertainment. I wanted to be a human being. At certain times and certain years, I felt like the Energizer bunny. That gets old very quickly.

When I get time off, my brain is just, that's it. I sit. I veg. People will think that I'm upset or not happy, but I'm just exhausted. I'm just zoned out.

It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'

'Saving Grace' was a full stretch-out - literally, physically, spiritually, psychologically. And I needed to take a year-and-a-half off when it was over.

It's hard to get burned out or uninspired, man.

Retiring had nothing to do with love of the game. Nothing. It had to do with how I felt about myself. I needed the break.

The animal industry has sucked the life out of me for the past 20 years. I need a break.

A hot bath, time with a book, or five minutes of meditation helps tremendously with recharging and grounding us so we are more equipped to deal with everything life throws our way.