Rich Eisen Quotes

Shooting this show is pretty intense. You lose your life. But I have no life, so it's perfect!

When we're in production, it's 14 hours a day, and we couldn't be less involved in the world. My friends all hate me during that time because I can't see anyone. We say goodbye to everything.

It is the nature of the business that you work unsociable, unpredictable hours and can get called away at a moment's notice to somewhere on the other side of the world. This can put a strain on home and personal life.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.

In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.

I'm a workaholic. I've been doing my job for a long time.

My job means I work late.

An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically.

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.

I am married to work.

How can you compare my life to any other MEP? I mean, come on, it's crackers, isn't it? Look, other MEPs do five days a week in Brussels and pop home for weekends. I'm working seven bloody days a week, all the hours God sends. If you include the socialising, it's over 100 hours a week.

I think within what my job is, you always have to find a balance, because this job is also a life choice. You're traveling about; your hours are all over the place. If you're in a show, you're out every night.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of - I wouldn't call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

You may work under incredible pressure over two hours in a day, but you're often around that studio 14 to 16 hours of that day.

TV is really, really, really hard work. You sacrifice a lot of your personal life, a lot of your sanity, just to do one show.

I work 110-hour weeks.

The best part about my job is that I'm pampered and always treated like a Barbie doll on the sets. But the worst part is that I have to work daily without many breaks.

I have a crazy work schedule.

I am very much married to the job.

I used to work, like, for 16 hours a day, or sometimes 24 hours.

When I was working actively, I used to be in the studios for 12 hours. I didn't have any time for my family.