Audrey Tautou Quotes

I love my work, but my home life is so fulfilling that I don't tend to be driven by work ambitions.

I feel like if you have balance in life, you have to be consumed by your job because, ultimately, it will never be a job; it will never be something that you feel you're working on.

My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling.

I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for.

What I do is my life, but it's not like I spend 18 hours a day, seven days a week in the restaurants.

The issue of work/life balance is a real one, and yet I still find myself frustrated if I feel like I'm giving some aspect of my life short shrift.

If work came along I liked, I would do it. If it interfered with home life for too long or took me away, I wouldn't.

I cannot do more than two films at a time. I like to have a life besides films. That is very important to me.

I've never made a conscious decision to choose work over other considerations.

I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.

I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

The less I work, the happier I am. I discovered that, as most people discover at some point.

I'm still very much about being an actor. That's why I'm not married with kids.

I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.

I have a kid and a husband and my family, and it's important to live the real life. I don't want to offer my whole life to cinema. It's only cinema.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

I don't see much difference between living and working. I think living is a part of my work. People often say, 'How can you work so much?' I don't think about it as work. I think of it as a way to live.

I don't know anyone that says, 'Boy, I had a great career, and I'm happy because I screwed up my life outside of my career, my family life.' There's no one that feels that way.

You can maintain work-life balance even while pursuing careers.