Top 45 Downtime Quotes

Don’t get me wrong – I like to rest a little bit. But I don’t do well with downtime.

When I have downtime, music is a big part of my life. Not so much singing, but I play the guitar.

I’m constantly preparing. Material hits me; I’m always writing. I go back and listen to my shows and just prepare and put my set together. But the day of, I like to have some downtime. A nice lunch is important for me.

There’s editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there’s not a lot of that for me.

I think everyone knows that I’m always the one that’s the busiest in Maiden. When we’re not touring or recording, I’m still doing loads of Maiden stuff – video editing and god knows what else – so I get a lot less downtime than the others.

I have things I watch in my downtime – I love ‘Scandal.’ I don’t write political romance, so there’s not a direct relation there. But it’s something I do just to turn off the brain for a little bit, and just to relax and recharge.

It’s a tougher gig than what people think it is. The proper, real, genuine, worldwide movie stars don’t get a lot of downtime from the world outside. That’s a tougher price, I think, than what people’s fantasy of fame account for.

During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.

I’m a very creative person in general. I like to create stuff in my downtime off the court.

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don’t have time for nonwork stuff.

I’ve continued to pursue other interests in my downtime, but I’m glad I’m a musician. It’s the perfect career for me.

When your career and your passion one in the same there is very little downtime.

Rest is key. I need to get the right rest time and family time to stay refreshed. My downtime is for family activity. That’s all about there is. I never switch off. Running my day-to-day golf business is a fairly busy one. There’s a lot of moving parts and I’m trying to simplify it and make it easier.

Chinese cooking is noisy – a multitasking activity that requires constant vigilance. There is no downtime.

Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

Because I’m around comedians all the time, in my downtime I tend not to watch comedy. Something the whole family enjoys is ‘You’ve Been Framed!’ It satisfies all of us. It’s universal, and we all laugh a lot.

As an actor, you have a ton of downtime, so it’s always good to have a hobby, especially another creative outlet outside of acting.

Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it’s really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That’s the ultimate demise of any good thing.

Everyone enjoys downtime at home, I’m sure, for various reasons, but I find the whole system of being out there and doing shows for people – the more of it you do, in fact the more energizing it is, for me individually.

When I do find myself having downtime, I just put my guitar in my hands.

I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.

I love music. In a lot of my downtime, I spend time listening to other people’s music or other people’s rhymes and writing my own.

I need some downtime before I go to sleep.

I’m at my best when I’m working. I just recently learned how to find balance and deal with downtime and take advantage of it.

Of course I party. Of course I go chase girls. Again, for me, balance is important. One hundred per cent, my work goes first. Martin Garrix is my main priority. But to maintain Martin Garrix, I have to enjoy my downtime.

Hobbies-wise, I love to carp fish. I like to be on the bank when I have some downtime.

If I ever have downtime, I’m usually sitting in my place playing video games. Or eating sandwiches somewhere, or watching sports some place.

Whenever I am not filming and not required to travel with work, I spend all my downtime in Scotland.

My life has become a series of planes, trains, and automobiles with some occasional downtime at a hotel.

This year, I had some downtime before my Australia tour and spent a week or so in Phuket, Thailand. As a confessed workaholic, sometimes it’s good to unplug and detach and honestly, the scenery, the weather and the people truly made this an incredible place for me to recharge.

For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.

I think there’s something to baseball, golf, fishing that there’s downtime within all of those sports. Even though you’re still doing the sport and everything that’s involved, there’s still this time to be able to think and have conversations.

I have a lot of downtime in airports and on flights.

The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you’re not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to do.

Honestly, if I’m around people I like, I can do nothing and have a good time. But when I have downtime, I like to go get a burger.

I watch football sometimes at home, but in my downtime, I play pool with my friends. Darts – I enjoy darts now, and when there is a game not coming up, I enjoy playing golf as well. I’m not very good at golf, but I enjoy being able to relax.

In my downtime, you’ll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.

When you have children, you don’t have downtime, but I have a family life that is rich and fulfiling.

We are human beings, you need to mentally switch off now and again to refresh your body and mind. But I never just lie on the couch in my downtime, I still keep my body in good shape.

You have to put your partner and family at the top of the list and there must be downtime – time for gardening, cooking time, book reading time.

When you’re a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.

I consider myself a lazy guy, but I do a bunch of stuff, and I’m so busy that in my downtime, I like to be with my wife, who I’m just madly in love with.

I’ve got three kids, so there’s not much downtime.

It’s nice to come away from training and relax, get away from the pressures and get away from football and enjoy the downtime!

There’s a lot of downtime where you’re filling your car up with gas, you’re driving to work, you’re stuck in traffic – it’s Los Angeles, and so much of it is a car lifestyle.