Catherine Reitman Quotes

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

I don't think people take enough time to themselves or like to be alone anymore, but it's really important.

I take alone time when I can.

I spend a lot of time reading and try to make sure that I can get a little bit of alone time every day.

Taking time for yourself is crucial when you're surrounded by people all day.

Everyone needs some time to themselves.

I highly recommend time to yourself.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

Since I was young, I've been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.

I schedule 'me' time because, just like everyone else, I need to unwind. I try to remember to take it easy and breathe.

In fact I try to spend at least one, if not two days without ever leaving my room. Because if I didn't, when would I recharge my batteries?

Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.

I love time with family and friends, but completely relish time on my own when I have no agenda to follow, no to-do's, just me and time alone.

I cherish my time off and the solitude that comes along with it.

I really like to have a moment alone at the house, either in the morning or when I come home from work, when I can just zone out at my computer, relax, stare out the window, get into a 'Game of Thrones' episode, go up on my roof, whatever, then go out to dinner.

I like being alone. I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day long.

In this job, you're constantly surrounded by people. There are a lot of demands on your time. And I guess those moments when you can switch off and get away from it are really important.

I'm pretty introverted and I spend a lot of time in books, a lot of time thinking and by myself, because that's what I enjoy to recharge.

I think that it's important to take time for yourself and to make sure to have those real moments when you're in bed at night, when you're with yourself.