Ella Woodward Quotes

I'm not doing a 9 to 5 job, so every week is different; one week I might be at home for three or four days, and another week it'll be busier. That's the beauty of my job.

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

I work when, and where I want to.

In a strange way, I don't have a job, so I have a lot of time on my hands. When I do work, it might be very concentrated, and it might be months where you're not really doing anything except maybe playing the banjo or writing something. You know, there's a lot of time in the day if you're not working 9 to 5.

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

Being an entrepreneur does, of course, give you greater freedom than someone who is tied to a fixed work schedule, but you'd be mistaken to think that you're going to have it easier than your 9-5 counterparts.

I would be doing anything to avoid a 9-5 job and high heels. Lifeguard, beach volleyball player, whatever.

I'm like the opposite of an 'office guy.' I don't want to be at the arena until right before my match.

Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don't care when I work or how I work.

I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it.

Swapping out the nine-to-five for a more agile, independent working life brings with it one other huge benefit - a channel for self-actualization.

I always want my options to be open.

The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.

There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else's schedule. They can come and go as they please.

Schedule? I have no schedule. There is no hurry. I work when I want to.

I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

I'm very much a girl that likes to have options. That's the way I am with fashion, and that's the way I am with my life.

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.

The more choices you have--the more options you have, the better off you are.

You don't have to be either.

I specifically left the corporate world so I could wear T-shirts, blue jeans, and honestly, I always wanted to be my own boss.

I think a lot of what I loved being a studio executive was the variety and freedom. But now, as a producer, you're much more able to enjoy those two things. What I loved about it doesn't necessarily exist anymore.