Quotes About Work

My father worked at the Grain Exchange.

I don't care about the respect of the press or the public or anybody. Whose respect every day I'm trying to garner is the respect of my children and my grandchildren and my friends, the people I work with.

My grandfather would go to work at 6 A.M.

I don't feel any pressure to live up to the legacy of my grandfather; if I did, I'd be mad. I'm as much of a fan of his work as anyone.

I hope to be working and eating dessert at 93 just like my grandma.

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.

You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.

My undergrad degree was in graphic design, and I don't work in that anymore, but I obviously do a lot of design and editing and Photoshopping, and the Adobe Creative Cloud is essential!

As long as I am working, I am grateful and happy.

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it.

I don't want to bore people or myself - to be busy is something to be grateful for, but to be busy doing diverse work is absolutely... I wouldn't change it for the world. I feel very lucky for that.

So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.

I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free.

I love to work. I actually enjoy it now more than I did when I was in my 20s. I don't know why, but I'm just grateful.

Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.

I feel so rich in my emotions and in my life and so grateful when I'm home and so grateful when I'm at work.

I'm grateful for every chance I get to do something I love and have a passion for.

I feel that the industry can be sliced into two categories - grateful actors and non-grateful actors.

I love being directed, and I feel so grateful to be able to get to work with some of the directors I've worked with.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

With comedies, it's been very gratifying to be able to clock in, laugh all day, and then clock out.

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings.

I actually gravitate toward comedy a lot when it comes to what I'm watching, but maybe that's because I've been on such dark work the last four or five years.