I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
Sean Bean

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
Henry James

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.
Esther Dyson

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.
Lee R. Raymond

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.
John Selden

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
Neil Kinnock

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never order food in excess of your body weight.
Erma Bombeck

Nothing exceeds like excess.
Al Jourgensen

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
James Payn

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
Xun Zi

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.
Marquis de Sade

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?
Charlie Sheen

The best things carried to excess are wrong.
Charles Churchill

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
J. William Fulbright

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
Menander

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
Charles Caleb Colton