Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline.

Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.

Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn't horrible, really - it's amazing. But having to work that much every day is.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

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.

An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

Shooting this show is pretty intense. You lose your life. But I have no life, so it's perfect!

Shooting a movie isn't good for a sleep disorder.

The tour life definitely puts strains on your body, not just because of the dancing but because of the fact that you are traveling into the wee hours of the day, getting up early, going to sound check - just the grueling process of it all.

Ordinary lawsuits shall not follow the royal court around, but shall be held in a fixed place.

I don't think much about politics as such because it has no room in our working processes. Eventually, our cases will have to stand up in court. And court will hear nothing about politics.

I basically hit the deck running as soon as I wake up and don't turn my brain off till long after the lights are out.

How can you compare my life to any other MEP? I mean, come on, it's crackers, isn't it? Look, other MEPs do five days a week in Brussels and pop home for weekends. I'm working seven bloody days a week, all the hours God sends. If you include the socialising, it's over 100 hours a week.

Hollywood is crazy because if you're working, you're constantly working. There's all sorts of scheduling and stuff, and maybe you have a day off, but you don't have the whole day. You've got a photo shoot or whatever.

My hours get kinda backwards. Most of the time, we're basing out of one town, flying out, doing the show, then flying back. And it's a pace that no one would believe, really. Unless you've done it, you really can't understand what it is. And if you're not really experienced and know how to do it, you will fall.

Being president looks like the worst job in the world.

As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make.

It was almost like I was in the army: school, work, homework, fly to New York, get in at 2 in the morning, do a morning show at 5 A.M., then another one at 7, then a radio interview at 10, you know?

It's an interesting thing to come to New York and do a television show. You're doing 10 hours of content in four and a half months. Eighty-hour weeks are par for the course.

It's a lot of a workload doing an hour dramatic show. It's just incredible what little time off you get.

They just brought it up to me and said, 'Hey, this is what we're going to do.' They're going to put out a section and call it Judge's Chambers and give them little judge outfits, and we'll see what happens. I think it turned out great.