Julia Restoin Roitfeld Quotes

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

My job is so wonderful.

I worry that I would actually hurt my career doing something I didn't enjoy.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

My dream job has already happened.

It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time.

I like the work that I get to do.

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.

It's never a matter of career decisions. I don't think in those terms. What matters is whether a role is interesting, if I will enjoy playing it, and if I'm confident I can do a good job.

If you're not enjoying your work, what's the point?

I don't think of careers from a functional perspective or from a subject matter perspective. I think of careers as, how do you like spending the time in your day? What makes you happiest? What are you most passionate about?

I enjoy working. And, I really enjoy the fact that I get to do what I love and call it work.

I enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think.

My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed money.

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it!

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time.

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

It shouldn't just be about money. It should be about loving what you do.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy.

When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.