Quotes About Work

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.

There was a time where I chose my jobs based on what jobs were available to me, so I would choose 100 percent of them.

At Rain Man, I was 38. And before that, I had really just started working when I was 36. I was very late. So I've got time, right? As long as I stay healthy and eat right.

It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.

So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years.

No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other's legs... To lose all of that for what? Who's got the time? I'm having great fun working.

I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world.

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done.

As Dennis Green used to say, there really is a time for pay and a time to play. And right now we're in the time for pay. That's just the reality of it.

I'm laid back, I take my time, get the job done. Lebron is high flying, dunking, passing the ball well. He's getting the job done, too. But we're different.

There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working.

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.

If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working.

You don't spend your money while you're making it. You don't have time.

I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time.

I enjoy my fun time and everything like that but I love what I do

Every time I try to write on vacation, I fail miserably.

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.

I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery. Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean, I really think you like me.

I started working when I was three years old and was basically known before I knew who my own name was. My parents needed money, so at that time it became my responsibility to pay the bills.

When I am working, I am working. When I am promoting, I am promoting. The rest of the time, I try to stay under the radar a bit.