Aaliyah Quotes

You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all?

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

I think you are taken more seriously as a young adult when you are on a film set and you are doing a job and people expect something from you. Is that losing my youth? Not at all. I had a fantastic childhood.

I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously.

The problem is there's still a big kid inside me who likes to have fun. I am passionate about my cricket and I love my family, but I'm also a kid and maybe I need to grow up... And maybe I don't.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

When you got something you gotta do in your career, you do it. When you get home, and there's work to be done, you do that. It's all about balance.

When you start thinking it is a party instead of putting your suit and tie on and getting your job done and handling your business, you are thinking about the wrong thing.

I'm a big kid.

I'm the type of guy that's always having a joke, messing around, but when it comes to the serious stuff, you know, your head's on the game.

Listen - we party, we have fun, we live life to the fullest. But we're also professional, we also wake up every day and stay on time for our meetings and we also have a structure and a certain structure and a certain substance behind the brand. It's not just luck.

SpongeBob is a kid living an adult life. He has a job. Kids think being a fry cook is a great job.

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

I think you grow up on every shoot you do. You do grow up because you're away from home, you're not with all of your friends constantly and in that environment you have to be grown up. You're working with adults and you're sort of expected to be older and that's how I like to put myself across. I don't want to come across as constantly messing about.

You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.