Quotes About Work

If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

That's the weirdest thing about television for me is that you're getting feedback in the middle of the work.

There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic - solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups - sectors of these movements do very valuable work.

You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone.

The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I do), I'd be a good Thatcherite.

Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of the ideological system.

I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.

There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."

A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.

By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left.

And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day...I'd rather go to the set and work.

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

I just want to do the least work in the least time and make the most money.

I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.

The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.

I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.

The idea of the record is that it's a statement for working with a group, of a collaborative work. That should be visible in the music.