Work Anxiety Quotes

Sometimes when our manager calls me and says certain things, we go, 'Oh God, we've gotta do that?'

I'm nervous before every day of work, almost. Even after six years of 'Breaking Bad.'

I am very scared of sitting without work.

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.

I have a brother who is afraid to go to sleep, he dreams he's working.

Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

I think that's part of my evolution: realizing that I can say 'no' to things, even when I'm faced with that lull that comes between projects, and I get anxious because I feel like I need to be constantly working.

I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in a state of anxiety.

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.

When I didn't work on TV, that was OK because I was doing lots of theatre but I did begin to panic a bit.

I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.

I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.

I don't want to take too long a vacation, although I do think I need a break. I start to - whenever I take too long a break or don't work a while, all my demons start to resurface, and I go a little nuts.

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

Sometimes when I'm watching managers on television and I see all that anxiety I realise that I don't miss the job as much as I thought.

Anytime you do a job, especially one that's as intense and long as this one was, you have phantom work syndrome. I'm constantly feeling like I'm miked, so I'm careful of what I say all the time.

The cameraman isn't thinking about whether you're good that day. He's too busy worrying about what he has to do.

I feel better when I'm working. I tend to not know who I am when I'm not working. That worries me a little bit... I've been fortunate to be so busy, but I haven't developed any other skills.

I go crazy if I'm not working. I find it harder to have down time. I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be working on this job otherwise I go insane.

I sometimes write in a cafe down the road from my house now because I feel guilty trying to work if I can hear them playing. I invariably end up sat in a corner, depressed, retreating into my own world.

It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itself pleasant to do, and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.