James McAvoy Quotes

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

It’s really very hard to tell people to think at work but not at home.

I tend to try and really separate my work from my real life.

I got into a habit really early about not talking about work, ever.

We need to establish boundaries between our personal and professional lives. When we don't, our work, our health, and our personal lives suffer.

I try to leave my work at work, and check my work-baggage at the door before I go outside of here. I'm not a super method actor, and I think that all the answers are inside the script.

Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.

I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.

Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.

I've got a clear line between work and real life.

I've never been the guy who's like, 'I take it home with me.'

My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method.

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'

I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

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.

Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and home.

I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.

It's hard separating work from personal life.

I have a few celebrity friends, but I'm really not into the whole Hollywood scene. I like to separate myself from my work. It stresses me out if I do too much of the same.

You have your personal life and you have work life; when it's combined, it's difficult.

I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.