Shayna Baszler Quotes

New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.

I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

I'm such a workaholic.

To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.

Half of the time, I'm walking around a construction site, then I'm transitioning into the evening, having drinks with the girlfriends or meeting with my husband and then racing back home to put the kids to bed. I have less time, so I'm a much more efficient decision maker.

I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working.

I'm never just on the couch. Being busy is part of who I am. But it's hard juggling my family, my husband, balancing that time.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

I'm constantly working, even when I'm at home.

I don't take vacations.

I don't take time off.

I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait until I'm a little bit freer.

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

It's a crazy busy schedule, but I still have two hours a day for school because it's a priority.

Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult.

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.