Quotes About Work

When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.

'Retirement' is a dirty word. Luckily, I can carry on working until I drop, provided I retain my mental abilities.

Divorce is challenging. When your kids go through things, it's tough. But it's no different for any other woman. And I have great compassion for single moms. It's lousy out there for them. I had the ability to work. I have always been the provider anyway, but there are a lot of women who can't support themselves.

If we want to grow our economy and help families return to work, we need to support child care providers.

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war.

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years.

As employees, we are all given specific duties and carrying out these duties provides us with a great sense of responsibility.

I'm a person who needs to keep working in a creative chakra all the time. That's what provides me with energy.

We can't afford to let high performing talent just walk away from our companies without providing an opportunity to work through family needs.

The people of Michigan deserve leadership in Lansing that will work to continue providing them with services they depend on every day.

As long as you have a job, I'm providing for my family, I'm blessed and you move forward.

Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself.

I don't think you've done something by getting a job. I think you've done something by proving you can succeed at that job.

It is overwhelmingly women who will plug the gaps in care provision, sacrificing paid employment to look after family members.

Stewart's interest in serious acting gives her something in common with Theron - and, like Theron, some of her most provocative work has come through working with women.

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.

I have a job - it's a great job, and I love doing it - but I can't not work. That's not psychological; that's practical.

I talked to everyone. But I also did work with a professional psychologist, sporting psychologist. That was just the beginning. After that I was able to change the direction to think, the direction to work and I think it was like training I did.

On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.

My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.

You'd be playing in a pub in the afternoon. Then late at night, you'd be playing a club. You got into that habit: 'If we don't play, we don't eat.'

It is very boring and lonely in Shirebrook. You know what we do after work? We go to the pub after work.

My dad worked 12-hour shifts in the Kodak factory - I remember creeping about when he was on nights - but he was also lead singer in a band playing in British Legion and working men's clubs. My earliest memories are of being sat at the back of a pub, falling asleep on the bench while my dad played.