Work Constraints Quotes

Here it may be convenient ... to say something of recreation and home life. Both are sadly curtailed by office.

There was no way I could get pregnant and continue to work in the ring and go on the road.

I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.

I can't even get three weeks off to have cosmetic surgery.

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

My muse must come to me on union time.

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

I have a number of symptoms that are neurotic and are constricting in the sense that if I had a brilliant idea for a film that had to be shot in Tulsa, OK I would tear it up and throw it away. Anything outside of New York, 'cause I can't exist in a hotel outside of my own home, I have to be in my own home and my own environment. This is a neurotic symptom that is constricting to my work even.

Before getting married, I was never really able to travel because of work and I was always with my parents.

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

Nothing could be more restrictive than working with people in advertising.

If you're in a series, you can't quit, you can't work in the theatre and you can't do a movie when you like.

The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.

I had someone call me this morning telling me they had somebody who would only work a certain number of hours a week because if they worked too many hours a week, then they couldn't get their government assistance.

That's one of the reasons why I left WWE: not to feel tied up or pressured into fulfilling a certain number of work dates throughout the week or month - because of my injuries.

I work whenever I'm let.

When you work in television you're in the writer's room all the time. You can't take 10 days or a week to go watch movies. Nobody's going to sign up for that. But it's something I had always thought if I was every asked I would definitely do it if I had the time to do it.

Working with kids is always hard because you have to have very limited hours. They have to have breaks, and they have to have a tutor, and they have to have a lot of - good things! But it makes it hard to shoot.

A lot of times, our greatest minds are locked into a 9-5 job.

There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.

The nice thing about being a director is that I can say, "I can only get into the room after the kids are at school, and I have to be back for dinner. And they're coming for lunch."

You know, all these fancy, detailed diets work only if you are sitting at home doing nothing. If you are working, where is the time to whip up food again and again?