Drew Barrymore Quotes

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

When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.

I don't think most analysts understand that whether I work a 70-hour week or an 80-hour week, I take my head with me when I go home.

You get burned out very quickly. You can sprint 100 yards, but you cant sprint a mile, and these jobs are all sprints.

I stop short of being a workaholic.

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

I'm not good at cutting off from work.

It's weird: I always feel like my career is about to end. Like someone is coming to get me. I don't know. I guess I need to find a better balance, but without my work, I don't think I would be alive. If I don't work, I don't live.

I've been told I'm a workaholic.

Vince McMahon is a workaholic; he sleeps 4 hours a night. The last thing that you want to tell the old man is that you are burned out - you need a break.

In the past, I've been a workaholic. I'm trying not to be anymore.

My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

I would roll out of bed and immediately start working, and keep working until it was so late at night that I couldn't stay awake anymore. Then I'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and do the same thing all over again. I did that every day for three years.

I don’t ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I’m not working I’m not at peace.

If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't really have that kind of off-switch.

I've always been very focused on my career. But, it's good to have people [say], "Okay, you need a vacation." "I do? Oh yeah, you're right. I think I do."

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work.

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

I get a little too obsessive with work.

I guess that's a flaw in my career, that I like to work too much.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

I guess I'm a workaholic!