Prakash Raj Quotes

You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

I do one film at a time. I can't wake up early. I can't do too many films.

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and have my business life and have my entertainment - TV - Hollywood - whatever have you - always compartmentalizing every aspect of my life.

I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.

I feel very lucky that I have this career that allows me to say, 'I'm ready to start now on this project,' and I can go and do it.

One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.

I've reached a point in my career when I can demand certain conditions, and one of them is a weekend break every three weeks during the shoot.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

We have to establish time boundaries and learn how to say no.

I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn't divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

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

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.