Quotes About Work-life

I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

flexibility cannot be the solution to work-life issues as long as it is stigmatized. The question that young people should be asking their employers is not what kinds of family-friendly policies a particular firm has. Instead, they should ask, "How many employees take advantage of these policies? How many men? And how many women and men who have worked flexibly have advanced to top positions in the firm?

Another way to frame the issue is that leaning in when you have significant caregiving responsibilities requires an intensive support structure at home and lots of flexibility at work. Think about simple physics. Imagine a tree leaning over the water

I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.

My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling.

I think it's better not to mix professional life and personal life - although it is hard.

I have drawn a clear line between my personal and professional life.

I draw a line between my personal and professional life.

I have never let my personal life and choices interfere with my professional life.

I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.

When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.

I get into the office about 7 A.M., then I usually get out of the office a little after 7 P.M. I get home, I have dinner, then I spend a couple hours with my girls. I'm in bed about 9 P.M. That's the program!

If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.

I was covering the Manchester attack and was asked to stay another day and do the programme from there. But I had promised my little boy I would be at his sports day, and I had this really sharp sense that I needed to be there.

If you work all the time, you don't have many life experiences to feed back into your work.

I don't feel that my marriage has anything to do with my career. It never hampers anyone's career in the film industry.

If we're not shooting, if we're not filming, if you're not standing on the soundstage, turn off your phone and go live your life.

I've tried watching shows before while I'm filming and it doesn't go good because I binge-watch all night and then I wake up with like one hour of sleep on my filming day.

Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!

In my opinion, my business runs better when my family is a part of it, and I get to see my wife and kids; that makes me a better artist.

My son was about five or six months old, and he was ill, and I was sent to New York to interview three people back to back. I got home, and I saw my baby. He had been very ill, and he was on three kinds of antibiotics. I'd been away for eight days. I looked at him and thought, 'What am I doing? I'm a terrible mother and a terrible journalist.'

We always try to remember that at the end of the day, it's just cookies. Don't stress that hard, because it's a terrible thing to take home with you.

I wish I'd known sooner that success isn't defined by who goes the longest without vacation.

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.