After a storm comes a calm.
Giving a break to yourself and the audience, once in a while, is good.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
I needed to step back from cricket, international cricket in particular, just to get away from the scrutiny and intensity of everything. I love it but it was too much for me.
When I used to see things in the newspapers, going onto the pitch was the best way to get away from it.
Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.
Most of the time, I'm making music. There'll be moments of my life where I feel like I gotta to take a break and come back to the music. It's hard to explain, but you need to get a break from it and then come back to it. It's like you gotta lose something to appreciate it.
I enjoy the holidays, but I'm back to work pretty quickly.
People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.
There's no shame in longing for peace.
The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.
All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.
Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.
Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.
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!
One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.
We wanted to slow down. But one would let us.
For me, the idea of being a successful actor is hanging out with my dogs and my boy, down in Venice beach, and going, "I don't have to audition today. I've got a little respite here."
No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.
A moratorium on opportunities, please. I need to recover from the last one.
I needed to step back from cricket, international cricket in particular, to get away from the scrutiny and intensity. I love it but it was too much for me.
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.
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.
A break in the middle of the season is good for everybody.
