Quotes About Work

The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

At home, be grateful. At work, be appreciative. Gratitude is a gift we give ourselves. Appreciation is a gift we give to others.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.

Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.

I'm kind of a homebody, and the rhythm of my thinking and work is starting at home, going out and coming back, bringing back news, bringing back information, applying it.

I don't travel for fun, because I travel so much with my work; when I'm not working, I mostly want to stay home.

When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If you lose that sense of play, the work suffers.

Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

People tell me I have the best job in the world, which is true, but I also work with some of the best people in the world.

I'm very against interviewers who do not have time to read the work, who accept jobs knowing that they don't have time to do the preparation.

I think the theater work and the on-camera work feed off each other. My theater work has become more simple, and my on-camera work has become more energized or more spontaneous.

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

My spirit life very much depends on my work. My work very much depends on my spirit life. And I pray every day, as part of my own ritual, to a god I believe in, not a god somebody else believes in.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.

I do my films the best as I can, period. I always hope that, gradually, my honest work will reach Americans.

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.