Irregular Schedule Quotes

I don't watch a lot of TV. I just don't have a whole lot of time, and my life is so disorganized, I don't have any kind of consistent schedule. Usually, I pop in a DVD or flip around when I get home at 4 in the morning and try to fall asleep.

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.

I work on a musician's week, so Monday is Friday. By the time Thursday rolls around, you stay in, and you work, and you don't go out because it's horrible.

The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I'm kind of a binge writer I would say, which I don't support. I was always kind of that way. Probably the time I was the most regular as a writer was college. It was like, what else is there to do when you're living in the Midwest studying creative writing?

I would arrive in college at 8:30 A. M. and go back home at noon to go to the toilet. Then I would return again.

Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business.

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!

Sometimes I eat at, like, 9:30 at night and then go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 4:00.

Just getting paid for six months out of the year is unacceptable in any kind of job.

I've spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of time off, that it became the norm.

I was a celebrity bodyguard. I didn't keep the best hours or choose the best food when I was on the road.

I go through periods where I work a great deal at all hours of the day whenever I am around a typewriter, and then I go through spells where I don't do anything. I just sort of have lunch - all day. I never have been able to stick to a schedule. I work when there is something due or when I am really excited about a piece.

I'm an artist, so days don't start on any regular time.

I can be drunk until 6 in the morning, and then I don't have to show up to work until 14 hours later.

When you're in the music business, every day is the same. If you work 9 to 5, you can't wait for the weekend, but in the music business, you don't know one day from the next. It's always the weekend.

I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.

I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.

The problem with film is you never know when you're going to be able to make a film so you can't have people waiting around for you. Sometimes it's fun to work with the same people and work with new people and mix it up.

Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.

I don't like working all hours of the night and having an unreliable working pattern.

The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.

I've had a lazy career. Sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.

The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

It's always morning for me until 4 in the afternoon.