Julie Foudy Quotes

I don't really have a 9-5, which I love, as every day is so different.

I've lived a life of unplanned freelance employment.

I never felt that I should have taken a 'regular job;' I was always lucky enough to be in regular employment as an actress.

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.

I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.

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

In real life I am a bit of a tomboy. I like the footy and sports. I am more comfortable in running gear than I am in heels, because I usually trip up in them.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.

My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do.

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.

I have had a 'real' job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.

I kind of go where the wind blows, and TV has just been how I make a living so far.

Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.

For summer, I definitely love doing stuff outside. I love beach volleyball if you're close to something like that. It's really fun; you can do it with a lot of friends.

I never felt like the nine to five mentality is for me.

I'm 26 years old, I'm not some 43-year-old who's just gonna watch TV all day. Of course I want to go out there, hang out with teammates, hang out with people I love, go to the beach, go hang out!

To be honest, I have never had a 9-5 job where I worked for someone else.

To have been able to do this for so long and to not have to work a regular job is a thrill.

I work when, and where I want to.

I'm the only person I know who's never had a regular job.

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.