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Quotes About Work

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.
~ Diane Sawyer
We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
~ Taylor Hackford
I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
~ Samuel L. Jackson
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
~ Ian Hislop
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.
~ Todd Solondz
When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.
~ Jerry Lewis
Work is a salvation. Work is how you connect with who you are, no matter how painful it might be.
~ Faye Dunaway
Now I finally know how painful it is for a mother to be working when her child needs her.
~ Mandira Bedi
Designers are not artists. They may have the talent of one, but if they want to work in that way they should paint or sculpt.
~ Antoine Arnault
I started out with three creative jobs - painter, janitor and gag writer.
~ William Hanna
I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
~ Barry Humphries
I was a painter and decorator with my dad for three years.
~ Jimmy Bullard
Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.
~ Marcel Duchamp
At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
~ Jasper Johns
I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.
~ Glenn Ligon
Once, no self-respecting puncher considered himself dressed for work until he had his feet inside of a pair of $15 boots made by one of the favorite boot-makers, whose merits they discussed about the camp fires night after night.
~ Will C. Barnes
I'm constantly running to meetings outside of the office, and I think that you can't go wrong with a great pair of Lanvin pumps.
~ Jennifer Hyman
I've never shown up to a session in my pajamas - but I definitely do auditions in my pajamas all the time, if I do them from home.
~ Ashly Burch
I stay in my pajamas until I have to leave for work.
~ Christine Ebersole
I do good work in Pakistan. I am an A-lister actor. So, even in Bollywood I want to work with an A-lister.
~ Saba Qamar
I need a break. I've been working for about a year and a half. I think I'd like to go to Pakistan.
~ Mia Kirshner
People have asked me about what it's like to work in Pakistan and abroad. It's such a healthy cultural exchange.
~ Mahira Khan
Television demands continuity and more work month after month. One has to also maintain quality as it reaches not just India but U.K., Canada, Pakistan, and Dubai as well. It is very powerful. And the risk of flopping like a film is also not there!
~ Vishwajeet Pradhan
MDKM' has to be the right launch for me. I was pampered a lot on the sets while I bullied everyone.
~ Rhea Chakraborty