Quotes About Work

What I am working hardest for is for my kid, for a better future for him.

I tell anyone who is willing to listen that auditioning is the hardest part. Once you get the job, you have the job. You can go to work. You learn your lines. You learn your character. With auditioning, you can have five in a week with different people.

The hardest part is the nature of working in film and television; the hours are very tough.

I would say the hardest part of my job is I don't get to spend as much time with my wife and kids as I would like, but I also try to get as much time with them as possible.

I don't want to be a hardware engineer. That seems like a terrible job.

Missourians are a hardworking people. They want good, quality jobs.

I had a paper route at eight years old in Harlem.

I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are given three years to do whatever work you want.

The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

The idea of going off to an office every day and 'putting on my art hat' doesn't appeal.

I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.

When I was 17, my mum made me work in a cake factory for three days - I hated it.

I hated school, but I love work.

I didn't want to be a retailer. I hated to wait on people.

In film school, you get skills, but then you get lackey jobs, working on projects that you probably don't care about. And there's something in me where I just couldn't bring myself to edit some misogynistic rom-com or movies that I would have hated to be a part of. So I knew I just wouldn't get any work because of that.

I always thought my father hated his job so much, but I was wrong. He loved being with his friends and comrades, and also loved doing the things outside his life of work with them.

Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.

He hath no leisure who useth it not.

The truth is, hero of '2.0' is not Rajinikanth but Akshay Kumar. If I was given a choice, I would have taken that character. Hats off to Akshay. He has worked so hard.

I've done a few jobs out there for the money, and I find those jobs have come back to haunt me.

I say to the guys at work, 'You've got to have fun - we're here more than we're at home.' Same with cakes; when you go and buy something, you've got to buy some fun.

I still haven't figured out how to have fun on a shoot.

It doesn't really matter where the opportunity comes from, as long as I have fun doing the work.

The great thing about being a lead is getting to go to work every day and have fun.