Quotes About Work

When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

Writing is tough. It's insanely obsessive work.

I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.

Obstruction of Congress in our work is a crime.

I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide.

Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It's like someone who works in a bakery knowing nothing about baking.

I think it's quite obvious my work is made by a woman, because I have never wanted to make anything that is not ephemeral. But I definitely want to be thought of as an artist first.

There's nothing more mainstream than equal pay for equal work. I mean, it's completely obvious that's what feminism should be for, and for women's right to choose what happens to their own bodies.

It seems effortless and fun, and obviously it's hard work, but we love road life.

I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!

Obviously we want to keep the jobs we've got.

What I disliked most about working as a shop assistant wasn't the occasional snooty customer or the shop or the hours, but the way people reacted when I told them I was a shop assistant - their automatic assumption that I didn't enjoy it.

Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.

As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.

My body has finely balanced itself with my gruelling work schedules and if I occasionally get a break, I start missing my shoots.

There were so many occasions when I wasn't around for my kids or my husband. But we learnt to work around it.

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

I'm really lucky that my occupation is something I love.

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

I'll call it a day when I die. It's a wonderful occupation for me. I've never worked a day in my life.

Anyone who has done seasonal work knows that as regular as the seasons themselves is the return of this feeling at the end of each season, It's time to quit. It's time to quit.

Men who work at Time have a life expectancy which is not long said the young man from Newsweek