A Quote by Dean Norris

I don't have a lot of downtime. — © Dean Norris
I don't have a lot of downtime.

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I read a lot of autobiographical stories, and I write plays and prose. And I play piano and cello. A lot of my downtime is devoted to that.
Australia's massive. I don't have a lot of downtime.
I have a lot of downtime in airports and on flights.
I'm actually at home when I'm not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime.
There's a lot of downtime when we're not on stage leading up to the gigs.
When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.
With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but you've got a lot of downtime as well.
With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but youve got a lot of downtime as well.
Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
As a comedian, as an entertainer, there's a lot of downtime. Once you can accept that comedy is a marathon, not a sprint, it gets a little easier.
Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don't believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.
And I love having the job to go to every week. With movies, there's a lot of downtime. I like working, and television really does that.
Obviously, in my twenties, a lot of downtime was spent having a good time, which I don't regret; that was what I needed to do to get some things out of my system.
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.
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.
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.
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