Quotes About Work

The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work with guys I really respect and enjoy.

You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.

The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Certainly, nothing would stop me coming home for Christmas, if I can. But I've worked a lot in theatre, and in theatre in New York, we work Christmas Day a lot of the time as well.

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

Being a chef would be too much hard work.

If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.

I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.

I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M.