LL Cool J Quotes

'Battlestar' was 22 episodes - 9 to 10 months a year - and we were exhausted. You finish shooting, and the last thing you want to do is go back to work. You want those 3 months off because you're tired - it's a grueling shooting schedule.

If things are crazy in the studio, usually the road is times 10.

It's an interesting thing to come to New York and do a television show. You're doing 10 hours of content in four and a half months. Eighty-hour weeks are par for the course.

I don't enjoy the road life or WWE's really hectic schedule.

'Law & Order' is a six-month shoot. Everything has to be crammed in. I had so much fun, but it wasn't a holiday. We had seriously long days, and we'd finish at 8 P.M. and start again at 7 A.M. We were doing six-day weeks, which sometimes tripped onto the seventh. But I loved it all.

The show girls do, like, 12 shows a day. I only did one or two shows a day, and I was like, 'I need to go to sleep.'

I always loved touring in Pentatonix; really the only reason it was tough was the pace and no breaks.

When we work for daily soaps, it is very time consuming: like, we work for 12-14 hours. But, doing a show that's interesting makes it worth it.

Nobody wants to hear an actor complain about too much work - especially other actors.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me.

At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.

When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.

A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.

I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.

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

Television shows, especially hour-longs, are hard, tiring work. Those people are very tired and very rich. But they're working really hard, and to create the illusion of having the time of your life like that, you really got to give it up to the people who do it.

My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.

'Grey's Anatomy,' that was a great show to be part of, but they work really long hours. They were all just really tired. Just worn out.

I'm in college at North Carolina State University. I'm about to start my sophomore year and have an apartment on campus with three buddies I've grown up with. I get to be normal when I'm there, and then I tour Thursday through Sunday.

Hollywood is crazy because if you're working, you're constantly working. There's all sorts of scheduling and stuff, and maybe you have a day off, but you don't have the whole day. You've got a photo shoot or whatever.

I plan to release just as much music as I can. Movies, I should be working on a cartoon, reality show, everything. Everything I could do, like a clothing line, like a lot of things are in the works. I plan on just performing everywhere. I'm gonna be worldwide!

The hardest thing about the WWE is the travel.

With 'American Idol,' you are on your toes a lot. People don't realize the amount of work.

Being in Pentatonix, we basically toured year round, so it was tough to just get a break.