Jim Dine Quotes

Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?

There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

I guess you need days off, but I just didn't want them.

I film so much and I'm working so much that when I do get even a Saturday or a Sunday off, I just literally watch movies or sleep or hang out with my close friends and relax.

I feel overworked, but when I don't work, I feel weird.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

I don't take vacations.

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

I can't even get three weeks off to have cosmetic surgery.

To relax, I work.

I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

The idea of 'ferie,' or summer break, is a long tradition of which all Italians, including myself, participate. It's a time to relax, reflect and recharge.

You have to give every portion of yourself to it. As an artist, that is just what you do - because we love it - we were born to do it.

I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.

The longest break I have taken in my life was 14 days. On the 15th day, I started getting impatient to start work again.

I had a long run for, like, probably 10 years with no vacation.

I train with a serious attitude, and when I am having time off, I hope to be respected as well.

With this career, it's hard for me to have a day to myself, so when I get them I really appreciate them.

I work very hard so that I can be present all the time for what I do and then carve out little pockets of time as I desire for my personal life.

I don't drink or party. There's literally no time for that. As soon as I finish a show, I go straight back to the hotel room, do emails, I sleep, that's it.

After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life.