Suranne Jones Quotes

I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.

I don't attend parties. After the day's shoot, I go home and spend time with my family. I never take my work home, and neither do I involve my family in work.

Once, I was out of the house 93 days in a year. I was missing grandparents' days at schools and kids' birthdays and Valentine's Day, not to mention the fact that when you're on the road, you can't get anything done. I had to learn to say 'No,' cut back on travel.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.

I've created an internal rule that Sunday is off-limits unless I put it on the schedule myself. That's family time.

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.

I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.

I need to be home more. That's the goal now. I have a steady flow of things people want me to do.

Flat-out, the time I wasn't working I was spending with the kids and my husband.

If you work and you want to see your children, something's got to give and for me, it's my social life.

I'm a family man. I have a daughter and a wife, and I spend more time on the road with my wrestling family than I do with my actual household and my immediate family.

I used to work until two in the morning every night, then still get up at six. Now, I have to help my daughter with her homework, spend time with my wife.

There comes a point in your life where you have to accept that you cant work all the time because there are people that need you waiting at home.

Sometimes you have long work days. Sometimes you have to be on the road a lot. But when you're home, be home.

I went home every night to New Jersey - or most nights - and to help with the six-grade math homework or to make breakfast in the morning, just to make sure that that was there. When I was single and didn't have children, I used to laugh at this notion of quality time.

I never wanted the business to dictate my life. I'm sure I've sacrificed and missed out on a lot of stuff, but I don't know what that stuff is, so I just raised kids, and I wanted to be around for that.

If you want to spend weekends with your family, something's got to give.

I've never gone to the Oscars because I can't afford another week away. It is not more important than my husband. It is not more important than my kids.

To me, the special parts of the day - and also the ones that fit with a full-time job - are bedtime and wake-up time. So I try really hard to be there for my kids as many of those nights and mornings as I can.

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

I worked all the time. Every moment I wasn't working, I was home with my family. I got divorced. And now I'm doing it all over again, and I've learned that the key is, I've got to work less.

When I'm back home, I try to do as little as possible because I want to take time with my family. That's the most important thing.

I always feel like I want more time with my kids. But I reject the notion that you can't have it all. I think you can: just not necessarily in abundance.

I am a hands-on mother, so I take long gaps between films.