Quotes About Work

Very few people get into that category of being a good grafter.

I focus on very few things in life - my work, my family, my friends. Those things are important to me and I pay good attention to them, and everything else just comes and goes.

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

What you've seen from the 1980s, particularly in this country, is far fewer people doing Saturday jobs and doing jobs after school.

It's so important that we take auditions less seriously, take your work seriously, but take the industry a whole lot less seriously because it is so fickle.

Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not entirely bizarre, either, as I have done some work in film before, and even directed a ridiculous, cable-access feature back in my 20s.

I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.

I went to school in the afternoon and worked in the morning. Sometimes I went out into the fields with my granddad.

I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

Fifty percent of what I've worked on is never going to get heard, but I think the important thing is just working.

It's a job to me, basically. I'm not trying to be the best fighter in the world or nothing like that. I don't come in trying to think I am the best fighter. I don't care about none of that. It's just a job to me.

I think what it is, is that fighters have become business people. I actually love what I'm doing. When you're a business person, sometimes you think of it as, 'Ah, it's work.' I love what I do, but then, on the other end, some guys do this as a living.

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

I don't watch scripted television, and I finally figured out why. It's my line of work, you know? It's what I do.

I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work.

Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.

As actors, you are social figures, and you are setting an example for people to follow, so I feel very blessed that my work has allowed me to influence people in some way.

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

If you're interested in the job and in the kind of work that's done, you have to have an interest in who's going to fill your shoes.

I didn't dream of being in television or film. But then I got married pretty young and had children, and I wanted to feed the children, so I worked a lot of film and television.

A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory.

I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.

I live in Australia, and I am Australian, and because I grew up in an era where we didn't have a film industry, and now we do, it's just really exciting for me to be able to say that I work in my own culture in a medium that I find fascinating.

I am really blessed to work with top stars of Kannada film industry.