Justin Theroux Quotes

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.

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

I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.

Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives; but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.

Of course I have a personal life.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

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.

I have always kept a pretty healthy separation between my work in my film and my life outside of it.

I got into a habit really early about not talking about work, ever.

I don't take characters home with me.

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

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.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

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

If people want to talk about Bob Dylan, I can talk about that. But my dad belongs to me and four other people exclusively. I'm very protective of that. And telling people whether he was affectionate is telling people a lot. It has so little to do with me. I come up against a wall.

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 always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.

My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method.

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'

In my career as an actress, I have never got involved with anybody from the world of films. I have always kept my professional and personal life separate, as that's my policy.

I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.

I try to keep my private life kind of private.