Quotes About Work

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.

I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.

I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

I've never not been proud of the work I was doing; I have nothing I have any shame about.

The life I live due to my work is difficult to share.

I don't shave when I'm not working.

People just do not realise what a football life can be. Since 1968 I've never had more than a few weeks out of work, when I left Sheffield United and I have not had a Christmas.

My work is my shelter, particularly in these moments when things are happening fast.

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

When we first started we felt something changing in terms of work, and we felt it was a global shift. People were taking control of their future, not just in terms of making money. They wanted to control their own destiny.

I actually did use to sell shoes.

I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.

On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.

During the shoot, when you're not at work, you're learning lines for the next shoot, and that can be all-consuming.

I always enjoy shooting for all my films.

People don't realize how long hours are when you're shooting a movie.

When you're shooting a movie, it's two months of your life usually. You don't really have time to see anybody else. Your friends are put on hold while you're shooting, and what you have is the family that you create on set.

I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.

Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.

A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.

Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you.

I had a Saturday job in Barratts shoe shop at the age of 15.