Quotes About Work

I always closed my mouth and worked.

I don't want to ever say to somebody, 'You don't have to see it. It's not good.' I'm done with that. I'd love to just do things that I respect. That being said, I do have two children to put through school, so we'll see if I can put my money where my mouth is, but I would love to just work with people I respect.

When I start running my mouth, I start running facts. I start giving guys numbers. I start giving guys ideas of where I come from and where I work.

There's never a surefire good career move except doing good work.

I'm not someone who complains in any way about how things move forward, unless somebody actually does a really crappy job.

I work for the director, and if audience are happy, I have gotten my award. After that, I have to move on.

I think balancing work and family takes constant adjustment. Its not something you can say you've accomplished and move on.

I've worked with directors who have done it too much, particularly in television, you know, 'okay we got it, let's move on, next setup.' 'Well what about, we could maybe investigate?' 'Mmm... no, let's go.'

I never thought 'Crook' wouldn't work with the audience - in fact, no actor ever has that in mind especially when it's a debut film. It was shocking initially but I had to move on.

My parents are not nurturers. They're a bit like me: do a good job and move on.

You give a hundred percent of yourself to a film and then move on.

I moved to L.A., and people said that I would never find work, that I would never find good friends, and I feel like I was fortunate enough to find the work, but it wouldn't mean anything unless I had a group of people who could appreciate it.

All My Children,' to me, was like a family... When I moved to New York I didn't know anyone, so these people became, like, my only friends and family for a long time 'cause we're working all the time.

I want to be inspired, and I want to hopefully do work that moves people as well.

Yeah, I mean, you always work hard, and certainly there's opportunities to do some bold moves, and sometimes they pay off for you and sometimes they don't.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.

I remember seeing RuPaul in 'The Brady Bunch Movie,' when she says to Jan, 'Girl, you better work.' And I froze it in my mind forever.

I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to it and a familiarity to the relationship because you're having to let go of all your barriers so you can let people in and work with them.

I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set.

If you look at my job, my union card, it says 'actor.' It don't say nothing about celebrity, movie star, nothing like that, and that's one thing that keeps me humble.

I was inspecting eyeglass lenses for a while. And I worked as a concession girl in a movie theater. And I was ironing before that. I always had some kind of a job. And then I started modeling.

I was a paperboy first, then I worked at a movie theater. But I was a caddie at a golf club, which I didn't like. The people were so bougie and racist at times.

I never enjoyed working in a film.