Anne-Marie Duff Quotes

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

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 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.

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 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.

It's hard to balance work and family.

I'm not good at cutting off from work.

The thing to me about this sport, all the fans, everyone that watches, everyone that has a career has had a bad day at work. If you have a project, you have a quota that you have to meet, you can screw up at it. At the end of the day, you get to go home to your family; you can bring your work home with you or not.

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

I've never been the guy who's like, 'I take it home with me.'

I find I'm the sort of harried working mother who has difficulty scheduling in a bit of rest amid the Ptolemaically complicated interlocking gears of professional and personal life.

Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.

Then you have to be with somebody who understands your job. Understands there are gonna be dollybirds going, 'Hi I'm Candy,' and be prepared to ignore that. And also be prepared to be there when you get home. That's a difficult job.

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.

We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.

What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.

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 have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.

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

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work.

It's hard separating work from personal life.

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

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