Deirdre O'Kane Quotes

Don't use your bedroom for work, unless you're a prostitute.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.

Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and home.

I don't attend parties. After the day's shoot, I go home and spend time with my family. I never take my work home, and neither do I involve my family in work.

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.'

We keep some distance between ourselves when we're not working. I think that's a really good thing.

I have always kept a pretty healthy separation between my work in my film and my life outside of it.

I believe that your personal life does not have anything to do with your professional life.

I never brought my job to my house, I never brought my house to the job.

There needs to be a demarcation between personal and professional lives.

I have drawn a clear line between my personal and professional life.

I've never had a roommate, even when I was growing up.

Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.

Often times, I just do a job and tell my agents, 'I'm in lockdown now.' I won't talk to anybody about anything else in the meantime, and I think that's generally the way to go because I also like to have a gap in between jobs.

It's a joy to work where I live, and come home and sleep in my own bed.

I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.

I've got a clear line between work and real life.

You have your real life and then you have your work.

I think it's better not to mix professional life and personal life - although it is hard.

The moment I am off the field, it's my personal time.

I prefer being called director Aishwarya Dhanush's husband. She and I share our passion for cinema, but at home, we hardly talk about it. Instead, we share other interests.

I tend to try and really separate my work from my real life.

I have no interest in having my wife as my manager and I don't think she has to because it would be kind of cliche. It's almost in the line of expectations where it's like, oh of course you're going to put them together, and I don't want that.

I got into a habit really early about not talking about work, ever.