Quotes About Work

Actors devote a lot of our time and energy to the work that we do, but there shouldn't come a sense of entitlement from fans that we owe them every second of our lives.

Yes, we as actors are so appreciative of our fans, but there comes a point where, if we've been working all day, we don't owe 100 percent of ourselves to anyone, and that shouldn't be expected.

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

I would work all day and then go the gym in the evening. I owed it to myself to take care of myself.

A lot of people just kind of act as if it's their God-given right to be overpaid and on TV, but it just feels like there has to be a level of like: 'This is an exciting thing to be doing.' It's not just something that we're owed.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

I love filming at night. I'm like a night owl.

I'm a night owl; I could work until 6 in the morning without even thinking about it.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

I've always been salaried; I've never owned anything. I've done very well, lived very well.

When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.

The kind of work you do, when you do it, how much of it there is, and who you delegate it to are often the cause of the quasi-schizophrenic behavior seen in many business owners and entrepreneurs.

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

The future of work is changing. It's becoming a world where you are owning a lot about how you make your living.

My cousin owns restaurants, and I used to work in his restaurants with his chef. I've always liked food, and I've always been interested in cooking and stuff like that.

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Because of the pace of daytime, you don't necessarily have time to work every detail of your character, so you have to bring a lot of it yourself.

I take breaks now and then. But when I work, I get things done at a fast pace.

The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs.

I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

The ability of working class Americans to bargain for health coverage at work gave them access to the same basic packages of benefits as executive management teams.

I always idealized the mainstream cartoonists and the packed schedule they worked under.