Akira Toriyama Quotes

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.

I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!

The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule.

It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice.

To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

But I do enjoy the freedom of doing a movie and then having some time off.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays, and holding a map makes me happy.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

After doing a total of five years of 'Daily Grace,' you kind of get burned out on doing the same thing over and over again, so I am allowing myself to not have totally any specific structure.

We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.

I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.

I'd gotten myself into a kind of journalism that wasn't really compatible with rearing an infant. I'd been a foreign correspondent for a long time and had this subspecialty in covering catastrophes. It had spoiled me a little because you have a tremendous amount of autonomy, and I couldn't really see being an editor in an office.

After 20 years in the game, I was fortunate to get away from the game and enjoy my family, which was great for me.

I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

I go to yoga every day. I meditate every morning.

I just enjoy both working and not working.

I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more special when it's not a daily occurrence. It doesn't cheapen it so much.