Quotes About Work

I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work.

In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.

The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

It doesn't really matter to me whether the 7-year-olds are big fans of my work. I'm happy just to be working at all. I do think it will be nice to have a movie that my son can watch.

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing

I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

It's not a bad day at work when you just have to take your shirt off for a big franchise movie. There are worse jobs out there!

The most powerful tool that I can share with you to transform any situation is the power of blessing with love. No matter where you work or how you feel about the place, bless it with love.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.

If you're worried about life-work balance, something is probably wrong with your life or your work. Instead of agonizing over balance, get excited and create change.

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.