Ellen Page Quotes

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

You do burn out, going from job to job. You have to be careful of your mental health and your body.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

My parents are a big help, and they're always making sure I have a normal life and my life isn't all just about acting and stuff.

I definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job.

When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.

I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

Sacrificing your relationship for your career sounds noble and romantic from the outside, but the reality is that it can create a pattern of self-destruction that will ultimately burn you out on the career you've worked so hard to build. It's a trap and, for some, an easy way out of having to maintain relationships under stress.

It's not that I don't take the job seriously. I'll do everything I can, humanly possible, to make myself better, but at the end of the day, if I don't relax and walk away from it knowing that I've done my stuff, then there's not much point.

I'm around a world-class staff that is pushing me to the limit while making sure I don't break myself, which is something I've had a problem with.

It's important to spend some time with your family. You've got to get the right balance. If it's all darts, you'll then just burn out.

Being able to step away from your work is big. Not even the actual work of sitting down and looking at game tape, but actually putting your job aside and focusing on other things. That's a big part of being successful in this league.

I don't think you should want everything at work, because home life is so important, and much more nourishing for your soul. One day work will end.

The people around me saved my life, not MMA. It was people who said, 'You're better than this,' who told me, 'You don't belong in this world.' MMA and jiu-jitsu and training gave me an escape.

In the past, I've been a workaholic. I'm trying not to be anymore.

Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard, but also unplugging, recharging and renewing yourself.

My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing.

I try to get enough sleep and exercise, try not to make mountains out of molehills, and vent a lot. I have a good team to support my work. I also do lots of mundane things, which will center me.

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

If I cannot rest and relax, all the work I do is for naught.

Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless...

That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.