Quotes About Work

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.

You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.

Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.

Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

I have less control over how I'm cast and the jobs that I get than people would imagine. Most of us don't have control over that, but I think it's a preponderance of your body of work.

I can spare a dime, brother, but in these morally inflationary times, a dime goes a lot farther if it's demanding work rather than adding to the indignity of relief.

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.

Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically.

To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth.

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.

Quiet night, that brings Best to the labourer, is the outlaw's day, In which he rises early to do wrong, And when his work is ended dares not sleep.

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.

Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

I'm fortunate in being able to find great satisfaction in my work.

My other work, teaching, also is satisfying because I can be with people but in controlled circumstances, which aren't as likely to yield the pain of dealing with family.