Alan Jay Lerner Quotes

One of the more difficult things is the time. Either you are going 100 miles an hour, or you are sleeping. There is nothing in between.

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day.

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

I'm pretty much working 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

People have no clue how demanding my schedule was back in the day. There were times when I might be home for just one or two days a month.

I get up really early, and I go to bed really late. Sometimes I get tired, but it's not important. I have an exciting existence, and there's so much to do.

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

I'm a workaholic, and a lot of girls don't know how to deal with a workaholic.

And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live.

When I had a full-time job, I really wasn't that busy, but now I'm really busy. I guess that's a good thing.

It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.

My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.

It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to take on more things out of enthusiasm than were good for me.