Danielle de Niese Quotes

My life is basically my work.

What I do is my life, but it's not like I spend 18 hours a day, seven days a week in the restaurants.

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.

I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.

I'm essentially working from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. It's my biggest hobby but also my favorite career that I could ever have. Every single platform is important.

My entire career, I've been a worker.

I enjoy my fun time and everything like that but I love what I do.

I love my work, but my home life is so fulfilling that I don't tend to be driven by work ambitions.

I feel like if you have balance in life, you have to be consumed by your job because, ultimately, it will never be a job; it will never be something that you feel you're working on.

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.

The less I work, the happier I am. I discovered that, as most people discover at some point.

I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.

That's part of the reason Rex drafted me, because I value this job. It's my life. If somebody wanted to take that away from me, it's personal.

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for.

I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or five months of my life to something even if I'm overpaid, it's four or five months of my life away from home, away from my son, away from family and friends. I better believe in it on some level even if it's a big movie.

I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.

You have your real life and then you have your work.

Because I don't do five films a year, people maybe think that acting is not essential to my life. But if I worked any more than I do, I'd have no personal life.

Though decisions regarding work/life balance are important and vary widely from person to person, it may not be wise in the long run to optimize for doing the bare minimum at work.

You can maintain work-life balance even while pursuing careers.