George S. Kaufman Quotes

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.

I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting.

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

I get into the office about 7 A.M., then I usually get out of the office a little after 7 P.M. I get home, I have dinner, then I spend a couple hours with my girls. I'm in bed about 9 P.M. That's the program!

I don't work late into the night.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

I usually sit down at 8 A.M. and work through to 7 P.M., with breaks that total no more than an hour and a half.

Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.

Unfortunately, teatime in London is when people in Los Angeles arrive in their offices and pick up the phone.

It's never me saying, 'When is my day over?' It's more, 'When do they legally have to get me off of the lot, based on when I have to be back the next day?' The first call is a big thing in the acting world and in the union world. There needs to be a 12 hour period, and I need it.

I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much for a human being to take, day in, day out, and particularly so in hot weather.

We’ve got to end the 3 day work week.

I work at night, starting at around 10 o'clock and working until 2 or 3 in the morning. I do that usually five days a week. In Berkeley, I have an office behind our house that I share with my wife, who works more in the daytime.

I work from about 8:30 A.M. until 7 P.M., five days a week, when I'm not sneaking off to buy another bar of chocolate.

I work in the mornings almost exclusively.

I have an agreement with the dental office I work for that we'll be closed on Wednesdays.

People think I work a lot more than I do. I think because you're in people's living rooms every day they're like: 'Oh my God, you're always on the telly,' but it's like, 'Yeah but you always have to go to work every day nine till five whereas I finish at 12:30 P.M. and then I'm home.'

I'm usually done working by Happy Hour.

I usually have a 13-hour workday. But at times, we get lucky when we wind up in 8 or 10 hours.

I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me.

I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.