Quotes About Work

With my work, it's not possible to just cast a production and leave it. I have to nurture the group of dancers to make it happen.

Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve them. And that's what allows them to give the performance that you want to nurture inside of them and what you think they're capable of giving.

I'm going to try to keep believing that if you do good work, people will keep calling. Whenever that fails, I'll just start going nuts on Twitter.

People are like, oh, you just hang out with Kim all day. No, I'm working on 39 businesses. It drives me nuts.

Here's why people don't live on oats and water: if you're cash poor, you're likely also time poor, and speed is of the essence when your job starts at the same time as your children's day at school.

People have been very strong against Obamacare since I was first elected, and they still feel that way. They want us to work to get rid of it. They also are very strong for keeping the government running.

If there is one thing I object to, it's actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

Scoring a goal feels a bit like a liberating act. It is a mix of sensations that only strikers can feel in their own guts. We work for that, to score. It is like a commitment, an obligation we take with ourselves.

I've always been able to work. I think it's an actor's obligation to keep working if you can.

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

Hey, we have obligations. We all work for a living now.

When you're doing a film, your agent and manager spend hours - days - talking about contractual obligations. If you turn up for work and ask for a peeled grape on top of foie gras but you don't get it, you can't get annoyed.

I'm never going to be inspired by some obscure film, which isn't to say I don't enjoy that sort of thing. I just want to share my work with everyone.

I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren't lost forever; they live in your work.

I'm obsessed with this show called 'Workaholics.'

I'm obsessed with Maggie Nelson's work.

Managers are obsessed with the game. It's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to live a balanced lifestyle.

I don't like to work. I am not helpless without work. Work is an obsession for me.

For me, work is both a hobby and a passion. And sometimes an obsession.

When you're working for yourself and your own obsession with finding the truth, you're at your own mercy.

I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

I'm much more aware of how distraught my father could be internally. That was normal to me - the obsession with work, the crazy hours - and when I watch it on screen I really see how enveloped he was by show business to the point where he didn't develop much of another life. Everything was show business to him.

Work is not my obsession. I like to dabble, and come to think of it that's what I have been doing all my life.