Quotes About Work

Production is a lot of work. Nobody sent me that memo when they came to me to do television.

Working with any senior actor is a learning experience, so getting to work with a thespian like Kamal Hassan was a memorable one.

When I was 16, I was working on 'Arrested Development.' My memories of being 16 were just trying to keep up with school while doing the show and trying to be around all those people on the show, as much as I could.

Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.

One of my earliest memories is my father telling me to behave because I'm about to meet and work with the greatest actor of all time. Then this old guy comes out and I was like, 'Pfff, he doesn't look anything like Luke Skywalker, I don't know what my dad is trying to tell me here.'

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.

While men and women alike are liberated by the balance that work flexibility affords, women appear to derive greater value from it.

We called our research 'Getting to Equal - How Digital is Helping to Close the Gender Gap at Work.' And at its heart we found that when men and women have the same level of digital fluency, women are better at using their digital skills to gain more education and find work.

I know I've got the ability to bring a sense of menace to the screen. I have that specific competence, and it's generally kept me working.

Music is designed to be listened to, so it's calling for attention all the time, syphoning off our very limited auditory bandwidth and elbowing aside our ability to listen to the voice in our head we need when we're doing mental work.

You do burn out, going from job to job. You have to be careful of your mental health and your body.

My mental health has negatively impacted my ability to do my job.

World Health Day is a fantastic opportunity to start a conversation about work and mental health.

I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.

I never felt like the nine to five mentality is for me.

I'm a Detroit kid who grew up with that assembly line mentality: You go to work to make money.

My dad was raised hard. His own dad's mentality was, 'If you're not dead, you can work. If you're not dead, you're all right.'

You are born with the talent; then you work with it. You develop the right mentality.

My mam worked for 41 years. She was a single working mother. I think I always had that mentality of you can do everything. You can have your kid. You can be a good mother. You can work. She was very independent.

I think any time you put in a lot of work and you're trying to believe in a process, be dedicated to that one-percent-better mentality, you need to understand you may not see the fruit to your labor tomorrow or the next day or the next week.

It is important to feel the support of my family. Mentally, I can get away from everything that is football when I come home to be with them. Yes, work is a pleasure, but there will always be family.

I've never felt so physically and emotionally and mentally drained than I have on our shoots.