Quotes About Work

I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves

I'm always pleased when people respond to the work

If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.

Ever since I've been here [in Russia], my life has been consumed with work that's actually fulfilling and satisfying.

The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.

I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work. I like peace and quiet now when I go home.

There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me a very unattractive proposition.

I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.

Play needs direction as well as work.

I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

I get a little too obsessive with work.

The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.

I actually got a crush on Anne Heche when I worked with her on Huckleberry Finn. It didn't work out.

Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.