I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a…

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12,…

— Parker Stevenson

I work 12 to 14 hours a day, and in the spare time I do sport.

— Mikhail Prokhorov

It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.

— Luke Evans

Most of the time is with the family. Most of the time, is all the time. When we work it's a very intensive chunk…

— Brad Pitt

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

— Robert Harris

When we're in production, it's 14 hours a day, and we couldn't be less involved in the world. My friends all hate me during…

— Jennifer Konner

When you have endless time, you take all day to go to the grocery store. But, if you have to be at work for…

— Zooey Deschanel

Here in TV one has to give 13-14 hours of your day. It makes you dead tired.

— Kirron Kher

You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.

— Frank Zappa

Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours a day,…

— Rick Riordan

In the restaurant business, if you break even, you're lucky. It's a really hard business, it's a survival business.

— Dominique Crenn

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

— Anthony Bourdain

As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are…

— John Lanchester

My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done better at school, I don't know…

— David Chang

A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How…

— Tom Colicchio