Leighton Meester Quotes

There isn't a spare minute in the day. I have spent my life doing everything. I work. I go home. I do the shopping. I cook. Then there's the laundry and the dog. Most of my life, I have been a working mother. And even when I wasn't, I still did it all.

I work all the time and find it hard to switch off.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

My life is very much consumed with work.

Everybody just tries to be successful. Like, sure, it's good to be successful, but if you're working that hard? This is how I feel, I work so many hours a day, and I'm always working, I'm always traveling.

I find I'm the sort of harried working mother who has difficulty scheduling in a bit of rest amid the Ptolemaically complicated interlocking gears of professional and personal life.

Working gets in the way of living.

My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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.

It's hard separating work from personal life.

I like normal life, but I will go crazy if I'm not working.

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

I always feel like I'm so busy.

You can't work all your life.

I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.