Quotes About Work

To be able to work for 20 years as an actor in an industry that is not so predictable, I'm grateful every day. I'll do it till I drop, I guess - or drop out.

I was barely 16 when I started working. And I worked extensively. But you can work extensively till a point.

Dancing will never be a burden for me, even if I have to work till late in the night.

Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.

Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I'm so excited to get to work with him.

One of the best features of my career is that I have gotten to meet and work with some of the most stellar people in the business. From Tim Russert and Jim Lehrer to Bryant Gumbel, Andrea Mitchell and Judy Woodruff, I have learned from the leading lights.

Assistants like Tim Grgurich worked with me and watched film of me from my Oregon State days.

For me, one of my favorites, director-wise, is Tim Burton. I also really admire the work of actors like Sean Penn. He is probably my favorite actor because of his dedication and commitment to roles, and the ability to morph and change himself when he needs to. It's about dedication and commitment and a passion.

I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.

Whenever anybody asked me, 'Who is your number one director to work with?' I would always say Tim Burton.

I am definitely a Tim Burton fan. I had seen 'Edward Scissorhands' enough times to know it by heart. That's exciting: to work on something you feel like you really get.

I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.

Time is money, and the more breaks given, the less money that is made.

I tend not to look at Twitter in the morning; I try to force myself not to, for time management. I'll look at it on the way to work.

It could be hectic sometimes when you're being an artist and running a label at the same time. But there are times when you just have to say that this my time period to work on my stuff, and then you say this is the time to concentrate on my artists.

I am a pretty omnivoracious reader in respect to prose style, but if the prose doesn't have its own music, if the relationship to the sentence seems unconsidered or superficial, I have a really hard time reading the work.

Fundraising is very, very time-consuming.

Obviously I love the fans, and it's beyond lovely that people like my work, and I love saying 'Hi,' shaking a hand, doing a high five. All that's fine. But the posing for photos is so time-consuming and frankly a bit weird.

I'm very interested in what people will do for money. Money: it's timeless.

To have a body of work is a blessing - when you have songs that have been around generation after generation that they call timeless music, you can work that for a long time.

The abuse of power in the film and television industry is a tale as old as time. I've lost count of the amount of times I have attended professional meetings with someone in a more powerful position than myself under the pretence of work.

I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square!

You do not give a great biographer a timetable. You let them do their work and, in due course, publish it.

But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.