Ileana D'Cruz Quotes

My parents have always said, 'You'll be so unhappy if you're no more than your career, that it's important to get out there and do things other than just your career.'

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

Life is too short to work so hard.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

I was never really a career woman. My life always came first.

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

I want to be able to savour life while I'm still relatively young and when I'm still relatively healthy enough to do all the things I want to do, like travel, spend more time with my family and grandchildren without the huge pressure that comes with being a football manager.

I believe that if you work hard and you never get to enjoy it then what's the point. You can't take any of this with you, the money or nothing. The only thing you can take is experiences, memories and good times, so I like to get amongst it as much as I can.

I don't want to make a living. I want to make a life.

I've always been a big proponent of not working for the sake of working, because I don't want to work for the rest of my life - I want to live.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

I want to do things I enjoy, and show business comes fifth or sixth down the line.

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

I'm not really very ambitious. I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

Ha, well you see... this notion of a balanced life, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have that... but I can have what I call an integrated life.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

I don't live for my work. My life is my life. That's more important, and I think that helps my work.

I really don't want the highlight of my life to be my success as an investor. Genuinely. My idea of death would be that person who is still telling you about that goal he scored in 1974.

I don't live out my career, I live my life.