Quotes About Work

I'm very choosy when it comes to work. It's not like whatever comes my way, I will agree to do it. But if I'm getting good money and exposure and if the content is satisfying, what's the harm in doing it, even if it's yet another reality show?

It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.

There are certainly actors who I felt rivalries with, but then, as time goes on, you realize that you have to keep your eyes on your own paper because everybody's doing their own work.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

When I started Giorgio Armani in the mid-'70s, I realized that women needed a way to dress that was equivalent to that of men - something that would give them dignity, an attitude that would help them handle their work life.

After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.

It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.

I come to work, and I have a good time. I have no reason to change anything that I do.

I had found my niche working in a trade I love with reasonable hours.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it's a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past.

The actors I would like to work with are Julia Roberts, just because I've admired her work for a long time, well Brad Pitt. I think you know my reasons.

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.

I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd.

When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.

The public digs needled me to rebel. They forced me to work harder.

We have some inherent cost and infrastructure issues that are difficult to deal with, no questions. From my perspective, we have to work on the revenue side primarily. We've lost some customers. We need to rebuild the trust with those customers and get them back.

On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space.