Laura Trott Quotes

I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs.

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'

Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.

I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.

People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.

I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'

I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.

I don't have to work; I need to work.

Growing up and working at the same time is difficult.

I love working, wherever it is.

I think being able to juggle time and mind space comes with the trajectory of being an actor.

I have to very consciously choose the kind of work I want to do.

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

I pride myself on finding balance. I love making music and I love raising my boys - I find time to make both a priority.

I kind of decided that doing music is enough because I'm already running a couple small businesses. I'm a part of Bikini Kill Records, Le Tigre Records, and Digitally Ruined Records. In dealing with my health and everything, my ability to do that? I wouldn't be good at it.

There's sometimes when I feel really balanced, and there's other times when I feel like I'm trying to keep juggling too many balls in the air, and I feel like I'm on the edge of dropping all of them and having them all land on my head, you know? Scheduling is a big part of it, and the other is just remaining flexible and keeping a sense of humor about things.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other.

Kill time and you will kill your career.

I never set out to make men a career; it just happened that way.