Quotes About Boundaries

I will shrink myself no longer to make any human feel secure

I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.

Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.

Friends meddle with my plan of work. I resent people dropping in for a chat.

You have your personal life and you have work life; when it's combined, it's difficult.

Early in my career I determined that I would not bring the problems of my work home with me. For the most part, I have been able to do that.

Don't engage with people who are bullying. And as difficult as it might seem, it's not personal, it has to do more with them. But it's something THEY have to work on.

It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.

There's simply no way you can tell a woman you work with that you disapprove of her relationship with her adult child, no matter how much you think it would be better for him to move out.

You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.

I have family, I work with a lot of friends, but you'll never find me saying, "Hey, let's get a drink at 8:30 [pm]."

If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.

My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'

I'd much rather work with people that are tricky and difficult than people that just say yes to everything.

Stay away from girls who cry a lot or who look like they get pregnant easily or have careers.

You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.

I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

I think people are wise to keep love and work separate.

I can work inside the boundaries of Erika Murphy, or whoever the character is. It's fun to create somebody that's not you, that doesn't exist.

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.

I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.

I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.