Alexander McQueen Quotes

I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.

I am very much married to the job.

Your job, what you do every day, I think it takes a high priority over anything. That was something I dedicated myself to throughout my career.

I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.

I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.

I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what we're doing every day.

There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of - I wouldn't call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

It sounds crazy, but I'm so married to my work that I rarely meet new people.

I feel like if you have balance in life, you have to be consumed by your job because, ultimately, it will never be a job; it will never be something that you feel you're working on.

I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.

I get a little too obsessive with work.

I'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time.

My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling.

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to 'The Today Show,' and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.

The only thing I don't like about acting is that it takes so much time away from my family. Otherwise, I don't have any complaints.

Americans are so dedicated to their jobs.

My life is basically my work.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.

I have to put my career first.