Bobby Berk Quotes

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

Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.

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.

I stop short of being a workaholic.

If you work at home, you're always on call in a way.

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

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

Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don't bring my work home much. I'm either busy or not busy. And I don't work from home. I have an office here which has a white wall. No view. I did try working in a room with a view but it was too interesting. Too distracting.

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'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.

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

I'm certainly not a workaholic.

Working 90 hours a week is easily racked up when you're self-employed and rely on portable tech to do your work; your train journeys, toilet breaks, leisurely walks, bedtime, can all become 'working hours'. Reclaim them.

I've learned I'm rarely able to stay at home and not work. If I try to 'just sit on my couch for a little while,' I am going to grab my laptop and just knock out a few more emails, or start sketching up some product ideas for TheMuse.com. So when I want time off, I schedule dinners out, movie outings, and on occasion a flight lesson from Groupon.

I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

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 do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.

You can only do what you can do in this world. If you start thinking of all the white noise out there, I think you'll go crazy.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

You can't do it all. You get many requests all the time, but I still have to focus on football, still have to live my life a little bit. But there are definitely times during the week when you want to take time out.

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

I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.