Jodie Foster Quotes

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'

I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.

Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and home.

Responding to emails during off-work hours isn't the only area in which you need to set boundaries. You need to make the critical distinction between what belongs to your employer and what belongs to you and you only.

You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.

As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't.

I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.

My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

I try not to carry any character back home because that would be extremely frustrating for my family.

I wash my face every night with Ivory soap, and I don't wear much makeup.

I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.

I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.

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

I have always kept a pretty healthy separation between my work in my film and my life outside of it.

I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.

I don't like to mix my personal and professional life. Both are different, and I don't mix it.

I prefer to keep my face as clean as possible when I am not working.

People have told me, 'You shouldn't bring your daughter onto the podium, 'cause it's the workplace,' and things like that. But I'm not gonna really listen to that. I'm gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything'll be all right.

I am very clear about keeping my professional and personal lives separate. I don't want to talk about certain things, and that's the way I am.

There needs to be a demarcation between personal and professional lives.

I don't think I'd get employed if I did pastel eye and a side parting. People would say: 'Get someone else for the job!'

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

I don't take characters home with me.