Natasha Little Quotes

Your profession should give you enjoyment, but it should never be your life.

My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

I don't have a career. I have a life.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

I don't want only a career.

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

I just want to do stuff that gives me work satisfaction.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job - not a calling.

I feel like if you have balance in life, you have to be consumed by your job because, ultimately, it will never be a job; it will never be something that you feel you're working on.

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.