Angie Harmon Quotes

Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.

Swapping out the nine-to-five for a more agile, independent working life brings with it one other huge benefit - a channel for self-actualization.

I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.

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

If you're working in theatre, you have all your days to spend with your children.

I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.

I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me.

Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job.

As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world.

It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.

Whenever I grump when the alarm goes off, it's immediately replaced by, 'But I get to leave my office at 11 A.M. and be with my daughter all day.'

At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.

I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer.

I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.

I work six months and get three or four with the family.

I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.

The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.

I am so lucky to do the job I do.

My main priority is my family, and my next priority is 'American Pickers,' because I love it and it's worth my time and energy.

I left 'Coronation Street' so I could spend more time with the kids because it was difficult getting a work life balance.

Being an entrepreneur does, of course, give you greater freedom than someone who is tied to a fixed work schedule, but you'd be mistaken to think that you're going to have it easier than your 9-5 counterparts.

We've made it to the 1000th episode of 'The Chase,' as the show is so entertaining and informative. I'm so lucky I get to be a part of such a great team and have a laugh at work; I even learn some things, too.

I feel like being an actor it is a great way to do your job and be a parent, because you have a lot of freedom. You have a job and then the job ends and than maybe you don't have another job for a while or maybe you chose not have another job for a while. For an actor, it's like maybe you don't see your kid for two weeks while you are filming but then you might have three months off where you are at home every day and picking him up from school. I find it's a great thing.

I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.