Quotes About Work

I go along, play football, work as hard as I can, play as hard as I can, and then go home and spend time with my wife and kids.

It's kind of nice, and rewarding, to have been on the journey from having to play football and work to being a professional.

You just manage. It's all about balance. You have to play football and be professional. You come home and you have family life.

If I want to work, I can. If I want to play golf, or ride my motorcycle, I can. But the rest of it is family. Sometimes you're not really needed by your family, but you're there. And my kids like to know I'm there.

All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.

I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.

Clare makes life so easy for me. From a business perspective, to being my wife, to being my friend. It allows me to go out and just play golf and work on a daily basis. I consider myself very, very lucky. She's the person I trust the most and when it comes to business, that is extremely important.

Some people like to play golf; I like to come to work.

I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.

I didn't go to college and I worked so I could play music. That was my goal.

My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.

I always say the best players I have ever worked with are the hardest players I have ever worked with.

It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.

I was lucky that audiences in Mexico liked my work. I was even luckier when I got to do movies and plays with my brothers.

My first job was at the Inala Plaza selling jewelry; I've seen all sorts of life; I've studied overseas; I've worked hard in my community; I can sit down with anyone from any sort of background and have a chat; I'm involved in community organizations. How do you measure those things?

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

I just approach everything by just doing the best job I can do and try to be a pleasant person.

You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of needing to please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men.

A lot of people want to retire; I couldn't. You don't retire in our business. What, play golf and watch television? Oh, please.

We are a party which believes that we work in the national interest, not just to please my opposition.

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

Wouldn't it be funny if I were a total nightmare? If I just shot 21-hour days and went over budget? But, you know, it's something I'm really careful about, because I am a mom, and also, I'm an actor. I'm a pleaser: I don't want to take up too much of people's time.

There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.