Kay Kay Menon Quotes

I love what I do, but it occurs to me I may have handed over a large portion of my life to fiction.

Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

Ha, well you see... this notion of a balanced life, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have that... but I can have what I call an integrated life.

I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my life.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job - not a calling.

If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.

I know that the greatest of actresses has about 20 good years of acting in her and that she will go on living for 30 or 40 years as a human being. So, the conclusion I have come to is that I can't make acting my whole life.

I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and create, and do it for a living.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.

On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did.

You reach a point when you say to yourself, 'Do I want to keep doing this?' There are other things on my plate I want to do - I've been writing a play; I've been neglecting my standup.

Life is more important than work.

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here.

I don't have an all-embracing vision which people have to buy. I'm simply trying to work with the struggles we all deal with every day while we're trying to live out our personal destinies and make a living at the same time.

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Time scares me: having enough time to do all the things that I want to do in life, just even in terms of forgetting about the business I'm in.

I don't live for my work. My life is my life. That's more important, and I think that helps my work.