Quotes About Work

I'd rather live my life off screen and give only a certain amount of energy to the work.

I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'

Like everyone else, I use my phone a lot, and being a screenwriter, my laptop is my life.

There's a place for art in the world, but it can't be at the top of the list for a working screenwriter.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

I still take work if I think it's good. If I like the script, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't.

I look forward to every script that comes down the pike.

People with autism are extremely good at working... in a scripted environment, because that's how they live their lives a lot of the time.

To do stories that I love, scripts that I love, and work with people who are passionate about them and passionate about projects - whether that's on stage or television or film, that's the kind of environment I want to work in.

I just want to work on good scripts.

A lot of scripts are written with an eye on what will be popular or what will titillate or what this actor can do well. I don't think those kinds of scripts ever work.

Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.

I have some scripts, I'm putting a couple of projects together with people I want to work with. I think that's the most exciting part, when you can hopefully create your own content and find the people that you love that you get to work with.

There are certain times during the season when the game is a job.

I've never been on a show that's run for more than a season.

I'm always happy for work and feel absolutely lucky to be on something that has continued for a couple of seasons.

Secretaries don't take their kids to work; why should I?

I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.

The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who's seen my work knows everything about me.

I've always had to work to feel reassured, to feel secure, and that's not nice because you don't know where you stand.

I want to work to help all those working a lifetime to be confident they will have a secure and dignified retirement.

Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to them.