Pernell Roberts Quotes

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.

I think I would never be ready to do a regular job. I couldn’t go to the office every day at the same hour. I love my life. This freedom.

I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms.

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.

I have always been a freelancer. I always work for myself.

I specifically left the corporate world so I could wear T-shirts, blue jeans, and honestly, I always wanted to be my own boss.

I'm not doing a 9 to 5 job, so every week is different; one week I might be at home for three or four days, and another week it'll be busier. That's the beauty of my job.

Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting.

I am a freelance programmer so I am flexible about my working hours and have quite a lot of free time.

I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.

Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

I roll out of bed in the morning, whenever I want, and I work right away because, to me, that's the life. That's freedom. The whole point for me is that I love the freedom of being an entrepreneur that I do what I want to do when I want to do it.

I like working on my birthday, so I always do.

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

I don't very much distinguish when I'm working. I do what I like to do: the time changes and my activity changes.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

My philosophy is if you're going to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for not a whole lot of money, why work for someone you're not gonna be loyal to?