Quotes About Work

America is a great country. It has a lot of work to do. The bottom line is it's easy to talk; it's easy to have the media pick up on something, and it's hard to have the patience to put something in place you can build on that will make sure each citizen has their equal rights.

I don't have much patience as I really like to work a lot and it is really hard to work a lot in movies because you have to have patience - every movie is a huge test of patience.

I didn't have the patience to wait to take a degree before starting work, because I wanted to run my own business.

I think the most difficult part is being patient for good work to come. Sometimes, you feel like giving up if things don't materialise in a short period of time.

There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.

I think a coach, like a business leader who has people under him, needs to know how to wait patiently for the results of the work.

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm.

I wanted more control of my life. I wanted work to fit in, not to dominate; to support, not to lead the pattern of my life.

Children are part of the natural pattern of life. For centuries people have been having children and going to work. You get on with it, that's what life's about.

In the early 1970s, I got a milling machine apprenticeship at Vauxhall in Luton. My dad was a pattern maker at the factory. He worked every day of his life there and my brother worked there, too. I remember the pamphlets on all the new models arriving home.

If you're self-employed, between jobs, or can't get insurance through work, you'll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan's.

I have a particular love of an actor that I did work with, oddly, in 'Donnie Brasco,' who has since become a wonderful talent: Paul Giamatti. I would love to do a whole movie with Paul Giamatti.

My first guitar was a Les Paul that I bought off a friend for 500 bucks. I worked a long time to save up enough money for it.

All my big success has happened since I worked with Paul. I've worked with other people and alone, but I've enjoyed myself more and worked best with him. If he became big-headed that would be fatal, because I'm the bighead in our relationship, and I bully him over work.

In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.

When you get your first pay cheque, it's the best feeling in the world.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills.

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

I actually don't pay a lot of attention to the movie 'industry'... I just do the work when I get it. I never considered anything I was in, or did, as a possible breakthrough for me. I have advised other actors not to expect anything. Expecting a 'breakthrough' is almost an automatic for sure 'let down' or heartbreak.

I just like to keep working and being able to pay my bills.

When I started to work in the kitchen, there's not a lot of women that were working and I didn't try to pay attention to that.

I have not left the house after 6 o'clock without a paycheck for years.