Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

I love having time to prepare my lines and more time off.

I felt that working at an office from the early morning was impossible for me. Anyway, I wanted to be free from that lifestyle as soon as possible. I wanted to take it easy.

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

I would rather work less and do the things that I really want to do.

But I do enjoy the freedom of doing a movie and then having some time off.

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.

Most people are looking for a challenging, interesting job. I wanted a boring, undemanding job so that I could forget about it at 5, so that I would have something left over at the end of the day to do my own stuff.

I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from school in the afternoon. It's all about your output.

I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I'd get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o'clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning.

I just enjoy both working and not working. And fortunately, I work enough where I get that out of my system, and then we take a few days off, take a rest.

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more special when it's not a daily occurrence. It doesn't cheapen it so much.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

I work on weekends, but from home.

I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!

I love that I can work from home and take my kids to school every day.

I pretty much choose anything I do in life based on whether or not I can work in my PJs. Certainly one of the perks of doing an animated film is that you don't have to go and get ready and wear wardrobe, and you just show up in whatever you're wearing.

I cannot imagine not working. I don't understand the word 'retirement.'

I never felt like the nine to five mentality is for me.