Quotes About Work

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.

If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.

I have found a perfect balance between work and social activities and I intend to give both my best.

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.

I can have a real long day; I can have a 14-hour day of intense work and then get home, and it's just me and TCM on into the night.

A lot of coaches are very intense, which is good once you are working, but you don't want that all the time.

My job is intense. It's very physical.

The good Lord gave me something, and he gave me intensity. He gave me a body, and he gave me the work and how hard I worked the body the way that it was.

How families interact is not some abstract concept of mother, son, father, daughter; it has to do with economic circumstances, the work they do, the time they can spend with each other.

I just want to work and have the freedom to put my voice out there, and I want to interact with my fans and my followers.

My work keeps me so busy that I don't have much time even to interact with my family.

For anybody out there... who are parents who are taking care of an elderly parent or an adult child with disabilities, they know that if you don't have an infrastructure of care to support your loved ones, you can't effectively work, you can't effectively interact in the 21st century economy.

I just like to stay busy, and I like to work with interesting people.

I have spent my whole life working in the theater, and most of the people I know have done the same. And we are pretty interesting people.

John Malkovich is such an interesting person and such a fun actor to work with.

Here's the thing: When you tell somebody, 'I love you. I have always loved your work, and I want to show people a different side of you,' it's sort of an interesting thing that in my case, I've been very lucky, where they're like, 'OK.'

We would completely delegitimise what we are doing if we allow politics to interfere with our work.

When I work in a film like an actor, I do not interfere or try to use my seniority or impose anything on the filmmaker.

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break.

I never set out to do interior design; I just do what I do, and some people come along and want me to work with them.

I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

I like interiors as much as exteriors but 'interior designer' just sounds naff as a job.

I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.