Ashton Holmes Quotes

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.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

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.

For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to separate my two worlds.

I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then you leave, and it's done.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

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.

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.'

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

I got into a habit really early about not talking about work, ever.

I'm constantly taking calls and responding to e-mails at home, and I find it best to have that little work space. And then when you're not at that little space, it's not work anymore.

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 learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.

I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.

It's good to overexpose yourself with work. But don't expose yourself too much with the press.

I do not separate my job and my personal life; therefore, I never work and never rest.

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

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

Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.

I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.

I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.

I have a few celebrity friends, but I'm really not into the whole Hollywood scene. I like to separate myself from my work. It stresses me out if I do too much of the same.

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

I have absolutely no rituals or routines other than I work obsessively and think constantly about my work, to the dismay and discomfort of everyone I employ. And my family.

Life is more important than work.