Colm Meaney Quotes

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.

I love having the laid-back, easy-going, family-priority nature of New Zealand, but I'm certainly enjoying the States in terms of the career opportunities and the enthusiasm I get to find work.

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

I go to work, and think 'wow, they pay me for this', and I go home.

I'd tell any coach not to move for money... Stay at your job if you're really happy.

My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.

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

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

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 want to strike that happy medium: the balance of being able to find creative satisfaction in your profession, be able to afford a roof over your head, but still have the freedom to live a relatively normal life.

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

Quality of life is very important in France. I have many friends who turned down promotions and more money because it would affect their quality of life as a couple or a mother.

Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.

It's a joy to work where I live, and come home and sleep in my own bed.

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

It helps if you really enjoy your jobs. If you don't, then just think about the money.

It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children.

For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play.

There is the freedom from want, despair and psychological insecurity that would come from having income sufficient to provide the necessities of life. But there is also the freedom to choose not to work for a time in order to take care of family members, pursue a passion, acquire education or contribute to a worthwhile community project. There is the freedom to start a new business with an uncertain future, the freedom to say yes to a job that pays little but yields joy and satisfaction — and the freedom to say no to a job that pays too little or is demeaning and unpleasant. Why, they ask, should such freedoms be reserved only for the wealthy?