Maggie Grace Quotes

Doing eight shows a week is hard.

Unluckily actors don't get much free time, they are demanded every time and everywhere.

TV is really, really, really hard work. You sacrifice a lot of your personal life, a lot of your sanity, just to do one show.

Eight shows in six days can become very tiring - actually, a grind. It's not that I ever dreaded going to work because I always maintained a level of gratitude.

I'm busy, man, too busy. There's a lamentable absence of free time.

I have great respect for actors like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman who went to school the entire time they were acting. All I did was one small little independent film, and I realised I couldn't balance both lives.

Work that mobilizes you 24 hours per day and makes you responsible to all of the people in the country is worth propelling yourself through jetlag and uncomfortable news for.

Let me tell you something - compared to a TV-drama production schedule, touring is not strenuous.

In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

It's so difficult to find time besides the tennis.

Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

Hollywood is crazy because if you're working, you're constantly working. There's all sorts of scheduling and stuff, and maybe you have a day off, but you don't have the whole day. You've got a photo shoot or whatever.

The show girls do, like, 12 shows a day. I only did one or two shows a day, and I was like, 'I need to go to sleep.'

The pressures of being an MP mean free time is a very rare luxury.

When you're doing eight shows a week, you don't have much of a personal life.

I work from mornings to late nights, even on weekends and holidays. I hardly have any free time, let alone time to play other games.

I did 15 shows a week when I lived in New York. I did five shows on a Friday and seven shows on a Saturday. It was everything I did and it was my sole source of income.

I don't have a lot of recreation time. I've always been under the assumption that if you're selling tickets you need to work. The kind of success that's happened to me maybe only happens to one comedian every twenty years and so I'm on the road constantly.

As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make.

It's an interesting thing to come to New York and do a television show. You're doing 10 hours of content in four and a half months. Eighty-hour weeks are par for the course.

You may work under incredible pressure over two hours in a day, but you're often around that studio 14 to 16 hours of that day.

It's a lot of a workload doing an hour dramatic show. It's just incredible what little time off you get.

I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record 'The Archers'. It was pretty intense.

Working on a show for seven months is, as it turns out, kind of exhausting.

I don't enjoy the road life or WWE's really hectic schedule.