Quotes About Work

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

You have to farm the land. People have to eat. You can't play all the time.

I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting.

I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.

Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.

There are American directors I'd really like to work with, but I don't know how much I want to be sitting in my house, doing the rounds of meetings with CEOs. You have to be really hardworking to do all that, and I'm lazy.

I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

I'm in L.A., but I don't do L.A. things except go to meetings.

There is nothing worse after a long car journey than to have to go to meetings.

I like to have prolonged blocks of time where I don't have meetings scheduled.

The most learning I do is in meetings and board work and the film room. That's what happens. When you work hard there, you play well on the field. So that's what I do.

I try not to schedule too many meetings. That's one of the things I learned in corporate America - that you can spend your days having meetings and never actually have time to work.

Maybe because I've worked in the BBC for so long I am completely allergic to meetings.

I like to have meetings in the early afternoon.

What we loved about the movies we watched as children was the great character work. They are all about the place where the ordinary meets the extraordinary.

Ive got the greatest job ever and Im very lucky to be able to achieve a work/life balance that most working mums cant, but when I get the balance wrong, it makes me melancholy, which isnt who I am.

It's lucky that my life outside of work is so mellow; I'm really a homebody and a hermit, so I don't have to worry about blowing my voice out.

You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.

I support the work of the NRA. I'm a member of the NRA.

Getting people where they want to go, reliably and happily, can make or break their ability to succeed in a work endeavor or to hug a family member at an important moment.

I've always been fascinated by memory and I remember Jonah, when we first started dating, was working on something involving memory. It was early on in our relationship and I was like, damn it, I wanted to do a movie on memory. That was 'Memento.'