Quotes About Work

Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it.

Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

I don't want to sound like too much of a drama queen! But I'm not going to tell you, 'Oh, it's just so much fun.' It's work [working on film].

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say "of course eating him would work too.

It's interesting to work with what's important today, which is meaningful for our everyday lives.

I tend to work towards specific exhibitions, so there will often be a big push towards the end when we're finishing off a bunch of stuff.

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

I think any actor will tell you that they always assume they'll never work again, so every job becomes important.

If an opportunity arises, then I won't use school as an excuse not to work.

There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on "The Simpsons". See, there's "The Simpsons", and then there's everything else.

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

All the truly great stand-ups say, "I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work." To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then you leave, and it's done.