Joe Pesci Quotes

It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.

I think about how much I used to work and how much I used to make that the priority.

I am always in my space and it's a happy space. It gets stressful at times, but that's a part and parcel of our job.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea to come in the kitchen.

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

I need to work to feel well.

I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it, so I did.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

I'd like to settle down eventually, but acting is emotionally draining.

You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does.

My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard one. I'm not saying it is as hard as working in a coal mine, but it is still difficult in a different way. Sometimes you have to go through very strong emotional journeys and then come back to yourself. And that can be difficult to control.

For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

I like normal life, but I will go crazy if I'm not working.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine.

I've worked for a long time, but I got to the point where I felt like, I am out here so far, how do I get back? I want to have a real life, a personal life. I didn't want a personal life I just visited.

You feel stressed when you think that you are working. When I am doing movies, I don't feel that way at all. When I wake up in the morning and then get dressed up for the job, I feel good because this is what I want. I am the happiest that way and honestly, if at all I get a day or two off, I get restless.

I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work?

I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do.

After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic.

You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.

I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.