Quotes About Work-life

I had to learn how to not be a micro-manager. Maternity leave made me do that. I just couldn't anymore.

To me, it's very important to have time at the restaurant but also time with family and time for myself.

I go to Michelin-starred restaurants as part of my job, but that's not how I want to eat all the time.

You don't want to get too ridiculous on the weekdays.

I don't overwork - a couple of hours a day is fine for me.

There are a lot of offers. But I don't like to overwork.

Since 'Flip or Flop' aired in 2013, people really weren't asking me, like, 'Hey, what paint color is that?' or, 'Where'd you get that cabinet?' It was more, 'How do you stay healthy? How do you balance work life with the kids? What are you eating during the day?'

It's not the most relatable thing for working moms to have freshly painted claws all the time.

If you're strutting around Beverly Hills and hitting up these big industry parties every night when you're not making movies, then it's going to eventually consume you. But for me, I live most of my life in Boston. I do things no different from the way my buddies back home do them, except when I go to work, I go to a film set.

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.

I do try to schedule out the week and I do make sure that when I get home, I'm done. That's when my emails can get really backed up because when I get home I need to be totally present for the kids.

Don't feel badly when you take off work to go for a run, to go for a walk; don't feel badly to take time to play with your children, to be part of their lives. Work is important, but you can't work at your best unless you're a whole person.

My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'

Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.

I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.

If we had a perfect world, we can do 'Scandal' during the day and 'Murder' at night - that's the optimal thing.

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.

I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don't like it.

I cannot do more than two films at a time. I like to have a life besides films. That is very important to me.

I feel bored if I sit for 10 days at home. I take only 30 days off for my family in a year.

I'm up at 8:30 every morning, and I write from about 9:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. - with some breaks, of course. I really try to see writing as a career that I turn off when my husband comes home from work. Otherwise, writing could very easily become all-consuming.

I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.

We need to establish boundaries between our personal and professional lives. When we don't, our work, our health, and our personal lives suffer.