Melanie Laurent Quotes

When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.

I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.

My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.

If I didn't have a family, I don't know that I would never not be in a hotel room working.

It's hard to keep a positive attitude coming to work every day, feeling like you're getting better when the same result is losing.

All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.

I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!

It's my job, but I think it is too much.

There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life.'

A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

I suffer from everyday life.

It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

You're constantly working and missing meals. You're away from your family, and you're doing it for, like, eight months.

Trying to please so many people can definitely cause a lot of stress.

After Euro 2012, I had very little holiday and almost no desire to play football. I was slipping into depression, from all the travelling.

I panic when we're on tour and feel the world can leave you behind. When we finish touring, I feel like I'm running to catch up and find out what's been happening.

I work 18 to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, so I don't have time for a social life. Or any life outside work.