Quotes About Work

I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.

In my career, whether it's a big or a small movie, when I've worked on something for a long time, like [Ivan] Drago in Rocky IV, they start to take on a life of their own.

Thankfully, the life of an actor can be quite balanced anyway. If you look over the course of a whole year, you do tend to have periods of down time. So, it's about managing the balance.

You have to have a balance between your normal life and movies.

I think what's important is to first have your life and then do your job.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time and ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

The fact that I am able to live a life and act and to do all of those things and support myself and my family is a gift.

Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

I once worked in a pub. I couldn't add up to save my life, but I could pull the pints.

We must do jobs we detest because we are part of an organized society, and if everyone did what they wanted to do, the world would come to a standstill.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.

I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job.

...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony.

Traveling for modeling has been great, but I never really have much time to live the tourist life while in all the different cities.

If we can make America great again and if we can get everybody working and bettering their lot in life, then this becomes the great country that it once was, that it's ceased to be.

Sleep has never been a priority in my life.

I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?

In the next life you will be working with those attitudes that are now yours.

I'm not lazy on set. I'm lazy in the rest of my life.