Quotes About Work

Finding meaning in your work is your responsibility. Any job can be better when you actively work to find meaning in the work.

I find if you are in an office, the crisis finds you. If you're not in the office, the crisis finds somebody else.

I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.

Financially, I'm fine. But it's good to work. I'm not capable of doing nothing.

I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.

If you had ever told me that the finest film work was going to be done on television, I wouldn't have believed it.

My director Shakun Batra, I believe, is one of the finest in the industry and he has been the dream director I've always wanted to work with.

To work in your first film, in your debut as a lead, to work with the finest artists of the country - who doesn't want to do that?

I finish what I have to do in the office.

You finish a job and it's very emotional because you're working crazy long hours, and your work family is like a real family.

We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

Those critics awards come and go every year, but the finished movie is your work.

I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.

When 'Games of Thrones' is finished, I'm not one to go on about it too long and rest on one's laurels. The stuff that interests me is the work.

I remember so well my father's complete concentration when he went to the studio. Everything he did, every movement he made, he did with complete concentration. Then, after he had finished work, he would go to the beach or whatever, and then he would enjoy play and forget about his work.

I feel happy when I work. I don't care if tomorrow I will be fired.

At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if you don't do your job, you're going to get fired. You just have to kind of put your head down and do it.

At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.

I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.

I understand the politics of Washington, D.C. You need to hold firm, you need to work with your colleagues, and you need to throw elbows.

When I was a senior in high school, I did an internship with a law firm. And it was very clear that I did not have what it took to do that kind of work.

Antiques Roadshow' was the first job I had taken since my children were born that took me away from them consistently over a period of time. That was a big adjustment for all of us.