Sergey Volkov Quotes

When you're filming, you work 19-hour days, and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

Hollywood is crazy because if you're working, you're constantly working. There's all sorts of scheduling and stuff, and maybe you have a day off, but you don't have the whole day. You've got a photo shoot or whatever.

I'm just saying that being in this business is not easy, and it's definitely not for everybody.

Growing up, my dad would be gone a lot. But I knew what he was doing, and I wanted to one day enjoy that. When I saw how tired he was when he got home, that, in a direct way, prepared me and made me realize what a tough business this is.

My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems.

In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford. I picked music as a career choice, and this didn't sit too well with them!

I don't think you ever really decide that you want to be an astronaut. I put in an application and hoped for the best.

The International Space Station is a great place to live for a year.

The pressures of being an MP mean free time is a very rare luxury.

I'm happy here on the surface of the earth. If space travel ever got to be as simple as jet travel today, yeah, I'd take a jet flight to the moon.

You know, both my parents aren't really from this country, and the emphasis was really on education and studying, and TV seemed like it was not the best use of my time for my parents. So ironically, of course, I rebelled completely and now it's how I make a living.

I love to jump around, bounce around, and be active, which is one of the other reasons I decided to pursue a career in the kitchen. I work 12-18 hours a day, and most of it is spent doing just that - jumping, bouncing, and baking.

My parents had the plan for my life from the moment my mother tested positive with me. Looking back now, I'd say the hard turn for me was when I left school after the eighth grade to play tennis full time and study some with a travelling tutor.

In broadcasting, you're pretty much married to your job.

I usually work, like, 27 days in a row and then take one off.

On '30 Rock,' the hours were really intense, and I was often on set. I'm glad I didn't have a kid then because I don't think I would have ever seen her. I would work 15-hour days, and weekends, too.

There's one downside in comparison to both Soyuz and SpaceX, is that when you go to those places - when I went to Russia, or when I went to California - you're sort of focused on what you're doing. Your family's not there. Your lawn isn't needing to be cut. You're just focusing on what you need to do.

If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.

I started to study psychology but had to stop when I got into the first team.

I need to love what I do, because I'm going to give 110 percent. I'm going to be working from 6 in the morning until 10 P.M., so I need to make sure I like it.