Peter Morgan Quotes

It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.

15 Storeys High' is the hardest thing I've worked on. 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

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.

Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn't horrible, really - it's amazing. But having to work that much every day is.

Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

TV is really, really, really hard work. You sacrifice a lot of your personal life, a lot of your sanity, just to do one show.

While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.

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

I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.

I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.

Sometimes filming can be grueling when you're shooting the same scene for a week, or you're sitting around for 7 hours a day. They sound like very first-world champagne problems. I don't mean to sound like life is so hard, but filming sometimes is tougher than other times.

When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.

I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.

There's a lot of work that goes into it - if you think about how many collections a year that Karl Lagerfeld has to do, with Chanel and all the other things he does - you can't do that unless you are working 18 hours a day. It's really a lot of hard, hard work.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

I work all the time, and I'm basically in the office from the time I wake up and then working until I go to sleep every day.

I think if I'd have been an actor who didn't care, I'd have less gray hair, and I'd be a lot less tired.

When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.

We really practice music and work really hard. Sometimes we'll leave at six in the morning, and we started at three the day before.

Working on a show for seven months is, as it turns out, kind of exhausting.

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

Being a producer is more than a 24 hour job.