Quotes About Work

I work very hard, but I also really enjoy time with my family as well. So I take everything as it comes, but I really am very selfish about my family time.

When you spend a lot of time in your job, you realize you're just selling your time in exchange for money.

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.

I've been working like a dog as a United States senator.

My only problem is that I'm too sensitive about my movies. I feel each of them has to work and consider every film as my last one.

Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that's the way it should be, I sort of have a love affair with my work. Having said that, many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

I am focused on the work that the people of Arkansas sent me to do.

I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what we're doing every day.

I'm a very separate person to my job.

Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same space.

I'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.

I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.

Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.

To direct a sequel to somebody else's work is not interesting to me.

One relationship that went a long way was the one with my present wife. It was almost 30 years ago. We worked in a serial together in the mid-'80s.

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

Take your work seriously and yourself lightly.

I think that coming to work every day and what we try and do and accomplish, there's a seriousness to it.

I'm a public servant. And I work for the American people.

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.

There are many ways to serve.

I would rather be on the set than doing anything.

For any model in this industry, you never know if you're going to get work. You never know if people are going to relate to you, and embrace you. And then being trans is kind of like - I hate to say it - but it's kind of like a setback.

There's nothing like work to take your mind off setbacks.