Grenville Kleiser Quotes

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun.

Work doesn't work without play.

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

What do dogs do on their day off?; Can't lie around – that's their job!

Play until it's time to rest, then rest until it's time to play.

Work hard, play hard.

Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined, which with writing is often half the battle, or more. But it also means that if I want to, say, play hooky and chocolate and watch Bravo all afternoon, I feel horribly guilty. I wish I could find a nice balance.

I don't mind playing or watching a movie or sitting down.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.

I try to do my best to have fun off the court.

I'm interested in playing, not working.

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.

Usually after I'm done with working, I just come home and play a little game and go to bed. After work, I have a lot time to do a lot of stuff. I think I've got a good balance of work and play.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I'm working.

I believe in enjoying the game. If you make it too much work, that's not good.