Michael Dirda Quotes

I like to just hang out. My friends don't like to do that, but I do. Because, a lot of times I'm busy, and I just kind of like to get a chance to just hang out.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

When not working, my days are lazy.

To just slow yourself down, just to not do anything and drive around - I'm not like that. I'm not here to fill up the field.

Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.

Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.

When I go home, all I wanna do is just sleep and eat.

I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

It's nice to sit down when you're not working. I try to do it as often as possible.

'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a substantial amount of time, given how plugged in to our devices we are. People don't give themselves enough time to sit down. They're no longer comfortable with themselves.

You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you'd best believe I'm sleepin'.

Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.

When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.

Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.

I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.

For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!

Dialing down is not an option for me.

Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?

When I have time off, all I want to do is do nothing.

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

I like to do nothing.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.