Ingrid Bergman Quotes

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

Time off doesn't sit well with me.

I think the only reason I've had the career life that I've had is that someone told me some secrets early on about living. You can do the very best you can when you're very, very relaxed, no matter what it is or what your job is, the more relaxed you are the better you are. That's sort of why I got into acting. I realized the more fun I had, the better I did it. And I thought, that's a job I could be proud of. It's changed my life learning that, and it's made me better at what I do.

Work hard, play hard.

Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.

I like to work hard and play hard.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

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

I work hard. But I play hard, too.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.

When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.

I just enjoy both working and not working.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

I don't take breaks, man, I'm always doing something.

If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll. If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.