Zawe Ashton Quotes

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.

My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

We need to establish boundaries between our personal and professional lives. When we don't, our work, our health, and our personal lives suffer.

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

I tend to try and really separate my work from my real life.

I try to leave my work at work, and check my work-baggage at the door before I go outside of here. I'm not a super method actor, and I think that all the answers are inside the script.

I think a lot of times people who jump from one movie to another don't enjoy their private life. It's a great way to escape reality. But I enjoy my life.

I do not separate my job and my personal life; therefore, I never work and never rest.

Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.

You have your personal life and you have work life; when it's combined, it's difficult.

There is a time and place for publicity, but to stay a sane person, you must have a personal life.

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.

It's difficult to know when to set boundaries around your health at work because the decline is so gradual. Allowing stress to build up, losing sleep, and sitting all day without exercising all add up.

Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.

I try very hard not to take work home, but it can be tricky. Sometimes it feels as if you are wearing your costume underneath your own clothes! I suppose things are always ticking away in the back of your mind.

Fighting is fighting. Family life is family life. I need a distinct barrier between the two. Obviously, my family dictate how I'm feeling and my head space. But work's work.

It's always agonising to separate my life as an actress and personal life. Just because I'm happy with my acting life doesn't mean I'm happy with my personal life. I'm always making an effort to balance between the two.

At the end of the day I separate things; my life is my life and my work is my work.

I've never been the guy who's like, 'I take it home with me.'

It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it. I have to exercise to be able to fit the clothes and book the jobs.

Responding to emails during off-work hours isn't the only area in which you need to set boundaries. You need to make the critical distinction between what belongs to your employer and what belongs to you and you only.

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.