Quotes About Work

I've been very lucky as an actor. I have worked all the time. Some shows I do, they get cancelled. Some, they're critically acclaimed, and then they get cancelled. And some, I'm in the last season of this or that. But I can't complain about my career.

My detractors must do a fact check and rather comment and criticise on my work and performance.

Criticism is part of football, but we have to work.

You cannot criticize a man for going to work. You really cannot.

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

The critics are not writers - they're not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go about doing my next bit of work.

It's incredible how London-centric the theatre world is. Certain actors won't travel away from London anymore for work; practitioners often aren't taken seriously enough unless their work is seen in London; and it's sometimes very difficult to get national critics to review shows - especially if there's a clash with a London press night.

The only critics who annoy me are the ones who come to my shows even when they're clearly not fans of my work.

When I first began to work in pictures I tried to attract the attention of film critics, but I don't make movies to please them or myself anymore. I look for material that will entertain.

I do not why the critics don't like my work. I guess I do not make films that they like.

Critics are going to be critics, people are always going to get on your back, but as long as you go out there and do your job, then that's all you can do.

Retirement has never, ever crossed my mind. And I honestly can't imagine when or why it would. If you're doing the thing you love, why on earth would you want to stop doing it?

When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it off by saying, 'Your work makes them happy.' She never let it go to my head.

The crucial thing for me is that I stick to my job.

Ibn Said's autobiography is an extraordinary work, and his story is one that's absolutely crucial to tell.

Blizzard has definitely evolved around crunch. In our early days, we crunched crazy hours to get the games done.

People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

While on shoots, if I am not shooting for a scene, I would do any work that I can pick, including taking the clap, cue, basically assisting my directors.

I'm an actor who works, and a lot of this is luck for me, that I get to be a part of really great shows that have these cult followings.

I have a lot of respect for people who really work on their life - they've got this great apartment and a good personality, they write the thank-you cards and bake birthday cakes. That's who I wish I was. When I see people cultivate their own life like that, I admire it.

The U.S. is one of the hardest-working cultures in the world.

I do what I do merrily out of curiosity because I want to know how the brain works. That will get me up early in the morning and keep me going all day long.

I found, when I was working in restaurants, that I did have this sort of natural curiosity about why things work.

It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.