Harper Lee Quotes

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method.

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

Am I a workaholic? Yes, but I also have no problem taking time for myself.

Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

I know that balance that I need to have in my life.

I know some people say, 'You must have life balance.' I don't have that.

I just need to focus on myself. I think nobody should focus on others, whether they actually have a problem with Chinese swimming or not.

It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it. I have to exercise to be able to fit the clothes and book the jobs.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

I believe you have to have balance in your life.

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in 'True Lies', she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

It's so hard to keep everything balanced in life.

I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.

The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.

I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.

In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing, I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.