Michelle Williams Quotes

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.

Your personal life is something that's gonna last forever, and your career in stage, film, television, whatever, is not necessarily going to do that, so to keep the two separate's a very good thing.

I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

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

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 always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.

I like normal life, but I will go crazy if I'm not working.

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

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

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

You have your real life and then you have your work.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

I'd like to settle down eventually, but acting is emotionally draining.

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

It's hard separating work from personal life.

I feel like I needed a balance. I don't want to forget about my personal life and spending time with myself.

I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.