I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours.
Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'
Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.
[after witnessing a murder through a window] Paul Hackett: I'll probably get blamed for that.
It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.
Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.
After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria.
All my life I have lived within the very hours of the hands of love.
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.
I have to work at tunes to get them to come out. Sometimes I'll sit there for four or five hours and get absolutely nothing.
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.
I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.
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.
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
