Quotes About Work

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

Some of the movies I did - well, you have to feed your family.

I've sat in so many meetings where they talk about converting movies to 3D just for the China market and just to make more money. I saw that people in China work long, long hours and that it's expensive to go to the movies, and you want to rip them off for even more money? I don't think that's right.

If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.

The rules of the global economy are rigged against those who have to work to earn a living and in favour of multinational corporations and the ultra-rich.

My parents had multiple jobs.

Keeping it all together as a modern woman means multitasking, especially when you work. I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it. I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

My dad was a civil servant, and my mum was a secretary.

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.

Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.

My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.

I think every mother feels that the best place for their child is with their mum, but you want things for yourself, too. So, you're either at work feeling guilty, or you are at home feeling frustrated.

My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood.

I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

Awards go up at Mum and Dad's, but home is home, and I don't like to bring the office home.

For Mum and Dad... work and home is family, so work is family and home is family. We grew up with that.

My mum and dad always brought me up like that. You go to work, you do your best.

When I was growing up, Mum and Dad were both equal: they both worked, they both cooked, they both looked after us. So I wouldn't expect my husband to be any different.

I started getting a lot of work once I came to Mumbai. I was working with some of the biggest ad filmmakers. But I had to give auditions.

In Mumbai, I don't know many people. I only know colleagues.

When I'm in Mumbai, I make sure I drop Vir to school and pick up as well. And I fit all my work within that time duration so that I can be as present a parent I can be.

People think that when you work in the south you will be driving in a Ferrari in Mumbai but that's not true.