The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.
I don't like to feel intimidated by where I make a living.
I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
I don't think I would want my children to enter into my profession. There's a lot of stress and so much competition. There are easier things you can do with your life.
I had a lot of pressure in my career: when you play at World Cup or Champions League final, there is pressure on your shoulders.
The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'
When you play the game for fun, it's fun. When you play it for a living, it's a game of sorrows.
I think it's just sad in this industry that sometimes the pressures of being successful make you say things that are untrue.
I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.'
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
On the day of the audition for 'Sullivan and Son,' I had three other auditions all around Los Angeles. It was so hectic. I remember changing in my car before I went in to read.
Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.
I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.
The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.
The biggest stress for me at New York Magazine was when I was a middle-of-the-pack editor, and I had no control over my own schedule.
The stressful thing about being an actor is, like, you have to kind of audition again and again and again, you know? You go in one time, and you go in again for a director and then again for producers and then again and again and again.
As any female executive with a family knows, you're making mental lists all through the night. You're often not sure you've managed to sleep at all.
The downfall of the industry is that there is a lot of pressure in it, a lot of rejection in it and a lot of competition in it. It's a whole mess.
At a lot of college graduations, you'll hear people say, 'Follow your passions,' and that is important, but no one talks about the stress of not having enough money, the issues of debt, and the issues of work stress.
Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.
There's a lot of things in Formula One that can stress you and it's important to have good family and good support from home as well. I'm really glad that I have that.
I was born with a heart murmur. When I was 21, the stress of the career and traveling - the lack of sleep and just not eating right - had taken its toll. Our schedules had been pretty crazy for about three years, and there was no rest at all. So in order to continue on and, you know, have a life, I had to fix it.
