Time & Perspective Quote by Izabella Scorupco

Scorupco’s bluntness lands like a pin popped in the glossy balloon of celebrity wellness culture. The line isn’t coy or aspirational; it’s an act of refusal. “Yes” opens mid-conversation, suggesting she’s swatting away an expected question (How do you stay in shape? What’s your routine?) with the kind of impatience reserved for rituals everyone pretends to enjoy. Calling the gym “a waste of time” isn’t really a fitness claim so much as a value claim: time is scarce, and the treadmill is a famously joyless way to spend it.

The subtext is about authenticity as performance. An actress is expected to sell discipline, control, optimization. Scorupco instead sells boredom, which is oddly persuasive because it punctures the moral superiority often attached to gym-going. There’s also a quiet class-and-labor angle: for people whose work already involves bodily upkeep (camera scrutiny, wardrobe fittings, long shoots), adding one more regimented, indoor routine can read less like self-care and more like another shift.

Context matters: a 1990s-era Bond alum speaking in a media environment obsessed with “how she got her body” invites a contrarian stance. The joke, and the edge, is that she names what many people feel but rarely say out loud. She’s not advocating laziness; she’s rejecting the idea that misery is inherently virtuous, or that a sculpted body must be accompanied by a sermon about the gym.