Quotes About Work

I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.

Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.

I'm extremely, extremely lucky to be who I am and do what I do and work with the people I work with. Even though I can always find something to complain about, I find it very hard to complain.

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.

Up to a certain extent the UN soldiers are useful. But they are consuming a lot of resources in relation to the little work they are doing.

All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either.

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound drives the work these days - sound before description.

I need my trusty Mac laptop to write. I can't work with anything else. I'm used to the feel of the keys. I also like, more than anything else, Apple's Pages.

I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.

There's a layer of satisfaction that I get from cooking that is more than the work itself. I think when you're too competitive sometimes you can lose the joy of what you do.

Being a sport star and a chef both require passion, commitment, work and natural ability.

I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work.

I feel very strongly about making work pay, about getting people transitioned from welfare to work. Get people skills they need, help they need, so they can get on the ladder of life.

I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.

We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.

I work and work and if I have a surplus I book a holiday.

I used to work at The International House of Pancakes. It was a dream, and I made it happen.

Marketing is not inherently bad. That's just dumb. That's said by somebody that isn't doing enough work.