Quotes About Work

In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays, and holding a map makes me happy.

I enjoy the holidays, but I'm back to work pretty quickly.

The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other.

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

I don't believe that you have a work life and a home life. I believe that you have one life, and either it's working or it isn't working.

I have really tried to create a balance between my home life and my career.

It helps to have a happy home life to keep up alongside your career.

It's a balance - sometimes you have to concentrate on your home life, and sometimes you have to concentrate on your work life.

If work came along I liked, I would do it. If it interfered with home life for too long or took me away, I wouldn't.

I have a very spartan flat in London, and when they see it people say: 'Why don't you make it more homely?' The reason is that it's just a place to sleep when I'm working.

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.

My mother went to work in the homes of white folk, usually living in and looking after their children. The money was small.

My new hometown is America. But I live with my work.

I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.

I didn't really listen to music when I was doing homework or when I - when I work on a script. I tend to drift to NPR and news.

I love reading and learning. With acting, I get to put all that into my work and still get to do my homework and imagine I can do all these different jobs.

Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.

It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.

Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.

Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify it as work. I know a lot of people who are like, 'Man, acting's so much work.' And I'm like, 'No, it's not. I'm having fun.' And I want to keep doing that. I don't ever want to give up acting.

I've honestly been so lucky. I've never had a job where I didn't look forward to being on set in the morning.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.