Michael Caine Quotes

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

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've got a clear line between work and real life.

When I'm home, I never take work calls. If I'm at work, I work; if I'm home that's it, I'm home.

I don't like to mix my personal and professional life. Both are different, and I don't mix it.

I try to keep my professional life and my actual kid social life separate.

For me, work is one thing, and my life is another.

My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

My work is my work and my life is my life.

I have a very clear separation between my life and my work.

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 like business and personal life to be distinct.

We need to establish boundaries between our personal and professional lives. When we don't, our work, our health, and our personal lives suffer.

I don't take the roles home with me. I don't work that way. I don't understand that; I mean, I really don't when I hear that.

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.

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.

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

I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.

If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.

I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for.

I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.