Karen Allen Quotes

When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.

I really do love working. There's no day where I don't want to write.

I'm a bit of a strange human being - I love to work. I love art. I love self-expression.

If you love what you do, then you always find the time.

I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.

I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.

I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

I keep on working when other people are out having fun. But I love what I do and find it hard to stop.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

I like to take a break, but at the same time, I think most actors are not very good at sitting around doing nothing, because we like to work.

I love writing, and I think I'm kind of a workaholic. I'm happiest when I'm working.

I was always about working. I like working. I don't like being unemployed. I love acting.

Obviously, this is a job, it's a grind, but it's what you love to do. It's your passion.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

I like to work hard and play hard.

I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.

My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.

I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing.

I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

I love, love, love being an actor - it's still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I've always been someone who likes a busy day.