Gal Gadot Quotes

The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.

If you're working in theatre, you have all your days to spend with your children.

I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.

I left 'Coronation Street' so I could spend more time with the kids because it was difficult getting a work life balance.

I feel like being an actor it is a great way to do your job and be a parent, because you have a lot of freedom. You have a job and then the job ends and than maybe you don't have another job for a while or maybe you chose not have another job for a while. For an actor, it's like maybe you don't see your kid for two weeks while you are filming but then you might have three months off where you are at home every day and picking him up from school. I find it's a great thing.

I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.

I make about two movies a year outside the 'True Blood' schedule. I work on a great show six months a year, then outside that I get to satisfy whatever creative urges I have. It's a great position, especially for a single guy like me.

I'm usually done with work around 11am, so I have time before I pick the kids up from school.

The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.

I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

I've got young kids, so it suits me to do a job which keeps me in town right now.

One of the things that made me try writing novels was I could take time off to be with the kids. That's the practical side of what I love about the writing life.

Ambitious parents need more flexibility in how, where, and when they work, including the ability to work less or even not at all for a period. Equally important, they will need employers … who don’t view this kind of a zig-zag career path as a lack of commitment or professionalism.

Once a week, I might stay late at work. It's sometimes very efficient to work until 7 P.M. - and then come home to kids who are clean and ready for bed. Those days are good.

It's nice to predict your schedule, especially with a child. It's nice to have work and be in a stable place, which isn't always easy for actors.

I wanted to stay on TV because I've got kids who are school-aged, so I get to see them most days as opposed to going away for movies months and months at a time.

As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.

In England, I've had a more balanced career directing and acting. It can be quite difficult to juggle the two careers.

Of course, juggling a career and a baby is tough but, as it's my business, I pick and choose.

As an actress, weekends can be spent working, but my husband, Ryan, works regular hours as an analytics manager for L'Oreal.

It was quite jarring to go from newspapers to magazines, and the reason I did it was because I had my second son, and with my second child, I just thought, 'I can't travel at will,' which you really need to be able to do. And so I had a sort of slow realization that I could no longer do the job that I loved.

I was a social worker most of my life while raising my two boys.

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 a single dad in New York City, raising a child and pursuing a career.