Quotes About Work

There are certain people who I worked with, Pamela Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, they are figures. And they know this. They don't pretend to be good actors. They were made by the industry into figures.

I respect it if you're a really good DJ but you can't produce. What I hate is those who pretend to produce when they have a guy in another room doing all the work. Don't pretend. Everyone will figure it out at the end of the day.

'Happy girls are the prettiest,' and to be in the camera frame makes me happy. I just want myself to keep working. I can be in front of the camera for 48 hours continuously without any breaks.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.

I guess Johnny Depp has a pretty good career. I love a lot of parts that actors have played, so I love pieces of their career, but it's pretty hard to look at an actor's whole career and go, 'That was awesome!' Usually it either ends on a crappy show or with no work at all.

I worked as a singing, dancing busgirl in high school.

The biggest danger to media, and what ultimately drove it apart from the public's trust, are the people who believe that they are uncorrupted when their body of work doesn't support such a belief.

One has to draw upon one's own musical thoughts and one's own musical acumen, and not to be afraid to let that come into one's work. Perhaps that comes with more experience, but perhaps it also comes with daring, and believing that you should.

Sometimes the darker the work, the more fun you can have.

For me, the brightest years at IronPort were without a doubt the darkest years at home.

My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.

My job is about emotion. My job is about feeling. This might be controversial to say, but I feel like sometimes data gets in the way of that.

I've dated mostly guys who have corporate jobs and there's always the issue of them thinking my job is easy.

I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.

I don't know how anybody can work at home. I know I can't. It's just... there's too much to do at the house, and now, of course, I have a daughter that's at home, and she's always a draw. I can always drop what I'm doing and go play with her, and I do that all day.

I'm a father with two daughters, and I don't want them to feel that they have to go and work in China when they are older.

It's a bit daunting going into an industry that is very much based around your appearance. I just want to act; I don't care about that stuff. I hate that you need to think about it as much as you do to get work.

It's a little daunting coming on to work with actors that you respect so much.

It's always daunting to start from scratch, but it's exactly what I love about my job.

As the director, to have the opportunity to work with actors of the calibre of David Oyelewo is just fantastic and special.

I'd been working with Chuck Lorre since the dawn of time, starting with 'Dharma and Greg,' so when I get a call about a really cool opportunity to work with him, I say yes, even before I know what it is.