Domhnall Gleeson Quotes

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in 'True Lies', she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method.

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.

Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and home.

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.

I get restless easily so I always want to keep working, but I am trying to pace it as well.

When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

Fighting is fighting. Family life is family life. I need a distinct barrier between the two. Obviously, my family dictate how I'm feeling and my head space. But work's work.

I'm a successful professional athlete, and whatever I'm going through in my private life would never impact my performance on court.

I think it is up to each one of us to find the time and strike a balance between work and our personal life.

Being able to step away from your work is big. Not even the actual work of sitting down and looking at game tape, but actually putting your job aside and focusing on other things. That's a big part of being successful in this league.

I barely get any time for myself.

As long as I am on the sets I am like a goddess, goody-goody and nice. If there is something that upsets me or irritates me, I don't show it there. I wait till I get home and direct it on my family.

As long as you can worry about the stuff you can control, that's always best for you.

I started to study psychology but had to stop when I got into the first team.

I never brought my job to my house, I never brought my house to the job.

I just need to work. There's no other thing with me.

I wouldn't be alive without my work.

I've been told many times that I should give up trying to find balance in my life, but I refuse.

I'm extremely lucky to be doing what I'm doing right now and I work very hard at maintaining this career and living this dream that I'm living, but there's also a price to pay. I mean, we give a lot of ourselves and every day.