Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

I go home to London in between jobs, and in London, my life has nothing to do with the business. It's a family life, hanging with friends.

I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home.

I'm like any working mom.

It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.

It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.

No seriously... when there's families, you tend to go back to your room after the gig rather than go for a drink with the other guys. But there's always someone who's got something going, like the tour manager.

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

Not everybody even gets to live with their own family because they have to go to L.A. or New York or wherever to work and find a job and leave their family back home. But every day, I get to work with my family - if I want to.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

When work is going well, your home life struggles and vice versa. If my kids are OK - that is the most important thing. I strive for balance in my life, though.

I'm constantly struggling. You know, the stories that I feel like I could cover, do the work that I want to do and being a mother. That's really where my struggle is - and being a wife and having a life - and for me it's really hard to find that balance. I'm always struggling to find that balance.

Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.

I love stand up, but every year, the road takes a little more out of you.

I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on a tour bus. You're in a different town every night; as a kid, you're trying to make friends fast. You try to be funny.

When most artists walk offstage, they go to a lonely hotel room. I went home to my family. They were there before the show, during and after. It's been great. I never would have done it any other way. I wasn't gonna miss raising my kids. There was no way that was gonna happen.

It's hard having kids. It's hard having a job. It's hard having a relationship - for anybody.

The distance, being far away from your home, from your family, that's not easy. There are times when you say, 'Wow, what a fight, what a battle.'

I almost feel like sometimes when I'm on location, you miss your home and your family and all that stuff, but it keeps you focused on the work.

Now that I'm married it's hard to be away from my husband, the house, my dog. But I really love being on the road.