Quotes About Work

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.

I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different.

Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.

A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don't feel despairing at all. And I'm more looking with hope for something fascinating.

Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.

I get to go to work and FaceTime my friends and family and go, "Hey, I'm just showing you around my spaceship!" It's great to be able to do that. I'm having a ball!

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

I enjoy doing motivational talks with businesses and other organizations. I really enjoy being with people and encouraging them in the work they do.

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

Doing love scenes is always awkward. I mean, it's just not a normal thing to go to work and lay in bed with your co-worker.

To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.