Quotes About Work

Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.

The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.

Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining

Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.

I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

Most people don't like challenges at work. Actors love challenges at work.

I know the commitment that TV requires but it's nice to come to work and have fun.

So different groups have different definitions, and then they clash on those. So it takes adept leadership to say we're going to work through these.

And a sensible work strategy might be: surrender to the task but not to the taskmaster, become absorbed in the work itself but never absorb the work ethos.

My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.