Quotes About Work

My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.

My father was a storekeeper at a factory in west London.

My father worked in a factory and as a child it felt very secure. It felt very secure because everybody had work, the schools were free, so there was a security of knowing that the war had finished and families would come together again.

We make songs like a factory and put them out.

My father worked in a tyre factory. My mother worked as a teacher.

Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory.

When I left school at 14, I thought I had better get a job. I got one in a factory where I sewed on buttons. It was so boring and we weren't allowed to talk or sing. I lasted a day.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

We do not become an astronaut because we fear not only the risk of space, but we fear the risk of failure along the way more than we want to put in the work to make it happen - and it is easier not to try.

My four criteria: I don't want to work with people I don't like; I don't want to work in a business I either don't like or don't understand; I don't want to work for nothing unless I choose to, and I do a fair amount of that already; and I want to have some fun.

I'm well rewarded for a job I massively enjoy doing. I think I'm paid very fairly.

I think I'm fairly demanding, probably. You have to feel that when you're appointed to a job you have to do the job.

I have been a little lucky to get work. I know there are people who struggle a lot to get a film; I believe a lot in destiny. Things have fallen into place for me.

I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.

I'm by no means an expert at giving advice on depression, but I would say that a lot of my show is about making the decision to be happy. We all think that happiness is something that just falls into our lap. But it's something you have to really work on.

I know Chuck Lorre personally, and am familiar with his work going back to 'Roseanne' and 'Cybil.'

It really, truly is sad when it's over, man. To not have that regularness, that familiarity. I love working in television because of that. It's like going to see your family every day.

Entire families work for Xerox.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

My life is about family and friends as well as work.

As an actor, one is constantly reading scripts and interacting with creative teams. Sometimes, things work and sometimes, they don't. It's never in an actor's hands.

There's no better place to do a longform project than HBO. I loved the creative teams I got a chance to work with.

I've learned that if you don't have anyone opposing your work, if you don't have anyone thinking, 'Man, that should be me. I could do that. I should have thought of that, or they must have teams of people doing it for them,' your work simply isn't reaching enough people to be relevant.

Lee Min Ho is a very cool guy, and I had a great teamwork with him as well.