Sarah Michelle Gellar Quotes

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.

The only time I ever spend alone is when I am working or when my husband is away filming. I put the kids to bed and have an hour and a half in the evening for myself.

When my son was born, I decided I wasn't really into working 12 hours a day. That slowed me down a little bit.

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!

My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances.

I work at night, starting at around 10 o'clock and working until 2 or 3 in the morning. I do that usually five days a week. In Berkeley, I have an office behind our house that I share with my wife, who works more in the daytime.

I think about how much I used to work and how much I used to make that the priority.

I work from about 8:30 A.M. until 7 P.M., five days a week, when I'm not sneaking off to buy another bar of chocolate.

My working day usually lasts from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M., then two hours of viewing time for myself. It's like a religion.

In the mornings I drop my son off at school and then head to work. I am done at work by 2:00 P. M. and can head home.

I have a very clear separation between my life and my work.

One of the nice things about not working on a TV show anymore is that I'm not on any particular kind of clock.

I was living in a four-story Manhattan townhouse with three full-time servants and silver to be polished, and I was doing too much. My kids were growing up without me, and suddenly I thought, 'I want some other stuff.' So I stopped working instead of cutting back, and went to Australia instead of Vermont.

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

I don't work late into the night.

I took 18 months away to have my son, Joseph, and it was the biggest break I'd ever had in my working life of nearly 20 years.

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

Hey, I work one full hour a day!

I love to not work. I love to go to the movies, I like to travel... I think I work maybe half the year. Sometimes, people think I've done three films in a year, but it's because I did a participation [cameo?] in a film. But I work for half a year, no more.