Maggie Q Quotes

I lead a boring life because I do nothing but work.

There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life.'

Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.

Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'

I just see myself in work mode. I'm like a robot: go in, work, go home. Autopilot.

You do something, the same thing over and over again for a long time, you're gonna feel like crap.

How many people just get up on Monday and do the same thing they've done every single Monday - go to work and just turn on route automatic and no longer have any meaning in their life?

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

The truth is, working on single camera, show or film, you have no life. You work 60-80 hours a week. You're up before your kid gets up, and you're home when they go to sleep.

I was fed up with being just plain Jane.

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

Acting had become something I did and did well - but didn't particularly enjoy.

I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

…dull, stupid, lazy, stinking people.

I started not enjoying myself. It wasn't fun at times. And I always said when that point comes when it's not fun anymore, then I'm done.

People in jobs that they hate must be worn out.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.

The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is.

Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.

It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible.