Quotes About Work

My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.

I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.

My mother, Carmen, cleaned houses and took care of elderly people.

When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.

Whether you're a mechanic or you build houses or you work in an office, you don't have to like your boss.

Once we were a part of Equity, we were able to get a salary, and then because we were employing ourselves, we just made sure we were always working. We put in hours to get subscribers. We used to do little shows at rich peoples' houses to get them to give us money.

I always wanted to do good work, but not in order to buy big houses and big cars. I just wanted to be 'alright', to have enough money to be able to live on, to go to the cinema when I wanted to, and buy the books I wanted to read.

Doing a film with YRF is like a dream come true for a newcomer. It's like a family here. Everyone looks after you. If you do your work well, they appreciate you. You are in safe hands with such production houses.

I try to work on houses not cars. If I was as good at working on cars as I was on houses maybe I would. But I'm not.

It was interesting to be in a position where I got to know people through cleaning their houses, but I became disenchanted.

In cinema, you have a captive audience, but to grab the attention of a housewife, who is in the middle of her household work and to keep them gripped to you, is a huge challenge.

Dad worked as a security guard for United Airlines, and Mom was a housewife who cleaned houses to make ends meet.

The whole time I've been an actor, from early in Houston, my goal has been to work - to keep doing it. I feel at my most satisfied as a human being when I'm working on a role.

I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.

You would be amazed how many people call my office looking for work every day.

How many people do you know who love their jobs? Did your dad love his job? Was he passionate about it? Because I am. I love it. I love the relationships. I love teaching. I love the competition. I love everything about it.

I can't tell you how many times I've been writing an article only to get distracted by an email notification, either on my laptop or smartphone.

Think of how much time is spent looking and applying for jobs. Some of those who have read my book on the precariat have told me they have applied for thousands of jobs. This is scarcely leisure; it is work.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.

Running your own business is a huge amount of fun, but there's also a huge amount of seriousness, so actually, they level out.

It's such a competitive industry. Your film and work make a huge difference, but the secondary thing... your appearance... what you wear and how you are looking are also important.

I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.

My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.