Work Balance Quotes

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Maybe I don't ever fully switch off, but I think the way I offset that is by splitting my time between film and music. I always want to challenge myself and grow, fail, self-flagellate, and then try again.

Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.

I'm usually done working by Happy Hour.

I'm a good dad and a fair husband and I work quite a bit. That takes up a fair amount of time.

Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Now when I'm not working, I don't really hang out with the young comics.

I got all of my out-of-work time done in the years when I first came to L.A.!

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.

It's tough to stay focused and be able to separate life from our job. We are paid to perform, and we are performers. You gotta have good brothers to lean on.

Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.

It's really cool to be able to do both. I get a chance to be in this film with these amazing actors, the coolest people ever, and I try to kiteboard as much in my free time as I can.

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

I've never lost my love for acting. I feel really at home on the movie set. I'm a more balanced person honestly when I'm working.

My marriage has worked because I am not around much.

Never bite off so much in your job that you can't spend a lot of time with your family.

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.

I was raising a child full time, sharing the responsibility with his mom. He lived with me half the time, so I chose not to go away and make certain movies.

It's sometimes tiring to get off a long-haul flight and go straight to the studio for a shoot, but if you really plan everything well, you can get so much out of combining travel with work.

It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!

It is my mission to make sure SAG-AFTRA protects our members' ability to do the work they love and to build their lives around it.

I’m in for work at 6.30am and one of the last to leave. I don’t want to go home. We have beds at the training ground and I go home sometimes and say to my wife: 'Do you know something, I didn’t want to leave work today!' It’s not a slight on my wife. It’s just a great position to be in when you love your job so much.

I'm not taking maternity leave from 'Big Brother.' I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show!