Petra Haden Quotes

It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it.

When I'm not working is when I tend to freak out a bit. It's hard for me to just stay home.

Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom.

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.

I am such that person that, when I'm working, I'm like, 'Oh, what I wouldn't give for a weekend off!' And then, as soon as I have more that 18 hours without anything to do, I start shaking. It's really funny.

I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

There's never enough time to do nothing!

I book myself tight. If I have any time off, I get antsy.

Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.

When I have time off, all I want to do is do nothing.

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

I definitely like not working sometimes. It's so fun. I just love sleeping in. In America, everyone is driven to succeed and wake up and do something. But I don't care. I want to sleep in. I want to relax. I don't want to have to get up every day.

My biggest fault? I guess it's a lack of patience - not when I'm working, but when I'm not working.

I didn't work for a year after Wall Street. I finished that in November, and then it was the following October that I did Drive, so I took a year off. I didn't do anything at all, really. I just hung around.

Once I started getting multiple days off in a row, it was a long year for me. That had never happened, and everybody knew I didn't like it.

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

I'm actually really lazy. I tell myself, "Okay, you work six months out of the year and you have to get up at 4 a.m. ..." I'll relish the downtime by chilling on the couch and watching my favorite TV shows.

I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.

Sunday is a day of rest. Loafing is not rest.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

I film so much and I'm working so much that when I do get even a Saturday or a Sunday off, I just literally watch movies or sleep or hang out with my close friends and relax.

I make appearances, but I really want to spend more time fishing. That is what I really enjoy doing with my spare time.

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.