Quotes About Work

In April 2005, I lost my father and after a few days, I went to Sajid Khan's place to discuss a film role. I wanted to keep myself busy with work so that I could forget the pain of losing a parent. When I went to meet him, he randomly asked me to touch his private parts.

If you have the ability and the wherewithal to create work that's basically in a discussion with the culture we're in, how could you not want to do that?

Work appealed to me; school did not. I was a disinterested, bored student.

I have absolutely no rituals or routines other than I work obsessively and think constantly about my work, to the dismay and discomfort of everyone I employ. And my family.

I love working for Disney! They are my family.

I think, so far, 'Jessie' has to be the show I've loved working on most. Coming in at age 12, I was so excited to work on Disney, since it had been my dream as a kid. I also feel like there was such a bond with that cast.

There is no perfect relationship. You have to work around the dissatisfaction.

I have done enough, and I am not dissatisfied with the body of work that I have done.

The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.

I love a period drama - the theatricality of going into work and having that distance between yourself and the character you're playing.

The more space you give Joanna, the better for her. I work better when I close the distance.

I don't see any distinction between work and pleasure so I do spend a lot of what other people might consider my leisure time doing history things.

Despite my work, I know some in politics will never support me. I see them distort my record.

If I fall into a city, I fall into a scene, and I just don't want to get distracted and enjoy myself too much. There's too much work to be done.

There are too many distractions on a computer.

In Russia it is great because you can concentrate 100 percent on your work, there are not as many distractions as London, so I've literally had a year concentrating on my dancing.

Too often in business, only financial data is gathered - and then it is distributed only to management. Other key indicators that relate to performance areas also need to be tracked. Information on performance has to be made available to those people who can best use it - those doing the work.

I hate to lose the constituency that I've worked with, but I've got 170,000 people to meet in my new district.

I'm too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.

As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work... diva behavior is never it.

How dare one act like a diva when you have a lot of work to do and you need to find your disciplines and so on?

I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.

I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.

The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums.