Work Pattern Quotes

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.

I work on a musician's week, so Monday is Friday. By the time Thursday rolls around, you stay in, and you work, and you don't go out because it's horrible.

I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

It used to be people came here, did their work for three months or so, then went home. Now we have these huge staffs we created and an atmosphere of being a full-time legislature.... Now things just drift without any direction or urgency.

I usually work, like, 27 days in a row and then take one off.

I worked all the time and when I say that, I mean I would work for three weeks, come home for a month, and work again, but it would have been nice to take long chunks of time off.

I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me.

Coronavirus has completely changed how people think about where or how you should work.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.

My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all night. When I get going I like to hunch over the keyboard until I feel totally played out.

I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period.

I've spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of time off, that it became the norm.

We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that.

I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.

I don't like working all hours of the night and having an unreliable working pattern.

Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.

The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours a day, or, when I'm in the final editing stages, it can be 14 hours a day.

No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.

For films, the process is that you work consistently and constantly for 3-4 months and then leave; whereas for a play, you prepare for about a month and then continue performing it for 5 to 6 months.

I'm kind of a homebody, and the rhythm of my thinking and work is starting at home, going out and coming back, bringing back news, bringing back information, applying it.

Maintaining a relationship is easy when you both are in same profession because you understand the work pattern.

I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.