Work-Life Separation Quotes

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

Many take the roles home with them and live the part. I'm quite happy to leave mine at the studio and return home as I left: simple old Roger Moore.

I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.

One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something like that, and start advertising or selling things. This etiquette rule is an attempt to separate one's social life, which should be pure enjoyment and relaxation, from the pressures of work.

How could you not let your life affect your work? That's all it is. Unless you have a very specific, isolated version of what you're doing.

I think it's better not to mix professional life and personal life - although it is hard.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

I'm constantly taking calls and responding to e-mails at home, and I find it best to have that little work space. And then when you're not at that little space, it's not work anymore.

I never take my work home with me, because when there is a baby in the bath at home, and you rush back for bath-time, as soon as you get through the door, you know that work is work and home is home.

A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present with my family.

My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.

I've got a clear line between work and real life.

One of the biggest mistakes I see in the bedroom is that they plan to be doing things other than sleeping in the bedroom. They will have a desk in there for working, or they'll have a big shelf in there for storing things. It should be all about relaxing.

My wife knows that interacting with actresses is all part of the job, but there is a line which I'm not supposed to cross, and as long as I don't cross it, there are no problems. She doesn't bother with whatever I do onscreen. But the line is always there!

I say you play a part, you don't work one.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

I have a few celebrity friends, but I'm really not into the whole Hollywood scene. I like to separate myself from my work. It stresses me out if I do too much of the same.

When I get a job, I make phone calls to every single person I know and tell them not to bloody call me.

For me, work is one thing, and my life is another.

The moment I am off the field, it's my personal time.

It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you're talking about is work, and you never leave that space.