Quotes About Work

I certainly take work as a joyous responsibility.

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.

I am forever a romantic. I try to bring that into my work. I try not to be fooled by romance. Or work.

It's not my job to critique the writing. I'm there to serve it. I had to figure out a way to make it work.

I've really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.

So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.

I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work.

Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

The reality is you have to do your work and maybe you don't know everything. Maybe I don't know what the hell I'm doing! But most of the time you can't even admit that, though.

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.

I like stories about people. I like things that are human and different. I want to be as engaged in my work as I am in reading a book. I want to be electrified by the films I do.

My schedule, it always looks like it's really steady, but believe it or not, I tend to work a bunch and then take a year off.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does for awhile become family.

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

I pretty much work all the time.

I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work.

I would loathe to work on modern films.

I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.