Alan Arkin Quotes

Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.

I like to stay busy. I am a workaholic, and I like to be creative.

I hate resting. I feel restless. My preference is to be working.

Nobody is going to tell me that I can't do three games in a week. No one is going to tell me that I can't do it well. I'm going to work really hard at it. I get bored if I don't have 10,000 things on my plate.

Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

I've always been really good at staying busy. Even while I'm working, I'm looking at what the next thing is.

I'm constantly working. I am constantly going to the next thing.

One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.

I really enjoy being busy and feeling completely immersed in work, knowing I'm working as hard as I can.

I try not to stop too long and look at the things that I am doing or have done because I feel like there is still a lot more work that I have to do.

I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

I don't mean this to sound cliche, but it's really about the work for me. I like to keep working on things.

My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.

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.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

I used to work at a movie theater and sold hams at Honey Baked Ham during the holidays. I sold a ton of hams, and they offered me a regular job there, which I turned down. I feel like anything you do, just do it 100% because then that work ethic will bleed through when it's time to work on your dreams.

The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.