Quotes About Balance

I do find real life a bit overwhelming sometimes. I'm totally chaotic.

I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I've got a lot of chickens, I've got a horse, I've got a kitty-cat, I've got a lot of goats, I've got animals all over the place.

I feel a kind of permission and freedom in my work that I might not allow myself in my real life.

Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'

The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter.

I always had a real love of children's presenting, and I was lucky enough to do that and have an acting career alongside it.

My first choice will always be Real Madrid, but working at a global level for La Liga can't possibly offend anyone.

Get the shading right, the lighting right, and there are things you can do to make the CGI look more real. People end up going crazy and give themselves a little too much freedom in how they use CGI, and if you overuse it, it draws attention to itself.

When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

I tend to not listen to my own music when I'm not working on it. No real reason other than it's nice to get away from it.

I try to live with the idea that karma is a very real thing. So I put out what I want to get back.

Burn out is such a real thing, especially when you are enjoying your job.

You're playing games every two or three nights, so there's no real time off.

Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.

I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn't take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn't beating the system but reinforcing it.

The reason I stay home more is because I realise that my blood pressure started going up.

Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.

Working gives you this new perspective. You don't take everything too seriously, and you realise that if you don't do too well on a history test, it's not the end of the world.

People don't necessarily realise that there can be just as much work on a quiet jacket as an overblown gown.

You come out of drama school and do theatre and are interested in creative endeavour, then you drift into TV and movies and realise that artistic endeavour needs to balance with financial success. There's no point spending millions on a movie that doesn't make any money, because the people producing it won't make another one.