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Daily Inspiration Quote by Mila Kunis

"It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!"

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A child actor’s version of “I’m fine” is rarely just about being fine, and Mila Kunis’s buoyant insistence on fun does a lot of quiet labor. The numbers are the tell: 10 and a half hours on set, five hours studying. She frames it like a breezy schedule update, but it’s an implicit defense brief against a long-running suspicion that entertainment work isn’t real work, and that young performers are somehow skipping the hard parts of growing up.

The line performs a careful balancing act between honesty and brand management. “It can be tiring” nods to the grind without sounding like a complaint that could read as ungrateful or, worse, invite scrutiny of the production. Then she swerves back to “but it’s fun!” twice, as if repetition can convert exhaustion into proof of good morale. That’s not naivete; it’s a survival skill in an industry where likability is currency and the easiest narrative to attach to a young actress is “spoiled” or “difficult.”

Context matters: Kunis started working professionally as a teenager, in an era when the public treated child stars as both commodities and cautionary tales. The subtext is: I’m disciplined, I’m normal, I’m protected, please don’t panic. It’s a PR-friendly articulation of labor that also hints at the weirdness of a childhood measured in call times and tutoring hours, made palatable by one strategic word: fun.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Kunis, Mila. (2026, January 15). It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun! FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-fun-working-on-the-set-i-usually-work-about-153880/

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Kunis, Mila. "It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!" FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-fun-working-on-the-set-i-usually-work-about-153880/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!" FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-fun-working-on-the-set-i-usually-work-about-153880/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Mila Kunis

Mila Kunis (born August 14, 1983) is a Actress from USA.

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