James Spader Quotes

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

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me.

I wouldn't give up my career for somebody. The most important thing to me is my work, and reaching people through my work. It's so important to me. It's my passion.

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

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

I don't want only a career.

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.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my life.

My career is my whole life, so if I'm not happy with that, it affects everything else.

I don't believe in work-life balance. I think it's more about work-life integration because, increasingly, so much time of ours is spent doing work, so I've always wanted to dedicate my work life to having a social impact.

I want more job. I want to die entertaining.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.

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

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

My dream job has already happened.

A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it's about my family, it's about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made.

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

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

I don't have a career. I have a life.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.