Quotes About Work

I'm a person who likes to give 100 percent to everything I do. I want to be the best at my job and as a mother.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

I'm working 18 hour days and I'm feeling guilty not being able to be there when all those times I want to be mother.

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.

I went out and got little jobs. I was selling candy as a teenager, selling newspapers. But as I got older, I didn't want to sell that anymore. I wanted to make more money.

I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.

As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

If God simply handed us everything we want, He'd be taking from us our greatest prize - the job of accomplishment

The next day, we shot 'I Want You Back,' and that was a 14-hour day. That's typical. By the end of the day, my knees and ankles are killing me.

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

Summer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'. I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning.

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.

It never seemed fair that just when you're old enough to do anything you want, you can't. You have to start working, so there's no time. And if there is time, you're not working, so there's no money.

What you want to do as a living and get paid for, others want to do as a hobby and for free.