Career Commitments Quotes

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

I made a joke with my sister... I said, "I don't know what's more nerve-wracking, job insecurity or job security." There's opportunities and things you compromise with both. When I had endless freedom of schedule, or when I commit to a movie for two months, then I could manage my music and go on the road.

It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.

I would never cancel a tour unless I had real reasons and personal things that require my undivided attention.

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

I realized that, for me, travel for work - I'm not speaking so much about travel for pleasure - had actually become a way of avoiding life.

These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to get laid.

After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to go to work on their novel or at the assembly plant or fixing somebody's teeth.