Quotes About Work-life

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

Do each day all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork or to rush blindly into your work trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible time.

Never confuse having a career with having a life

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

I need more personal time and, given my extensive work in health care, I want to pursue that interest further.

If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.

I was one of these people, especially early in my career, who balanced the equation too much in favor of my job; I spent most of my life focusing on that. But becoming a dad gave me back perspective; it brought balance into my life.

It's taken me three years to learn that just because I work in the food industry, it doesn't mean that I have to eat every minute of every day.

Being a mom was a full-time job. I was never willing to sacrifice everything for my career.

I'm in the gym - that's my full-time job. I leave it all in there. When I walk out of that gym I am now the husband, the friend and the father.

I grind and I graft, but I will make sure that I get that time off here and there to unwind and relax and have a life.

After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.

I'm an entrepreneur, so I've got to be ruthless about 'me' time if I want to have any left to myself! I make myself leave the office by 8 or 9 P.M. most nights, even if I do curl up with my laptop and a glass of wine at home to get through email.

When I'm off the clock, I'm just drinking juice and eating cereal and salads and stuff. If I'm off the clock, I'm not eating wings.

My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

The hardest thing about being a kid actor is just kind of separating 'this is my professional life' and 'this is my kid life.' That was always the hard part for me.

I used to work in a hotel kitchen at night and do theatre in the morning. After finishing my night shift - I did it for two years - I used to come back and sleep for five hours and then do theatre from 2-7 P.M. and then again hotel work from 11-7 in the morning.

Lena remembered the old adage about knowing whether you'd chosen the right career by how you felt on Sunday night.

I've been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

Playing Xbox for 23 hours straight is cool and all, but I'm going to teach you how to spend time on things in your life that will get you the following two things: paid and laid.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.