Quotes About Work

One of my friend calls me 'lost to showbiz', but that's only because I don't go for a drink as often as he'd like, because I'm always working. I've met very few famous people who are lost to showbiz - I have met some, mind.

Sarri was my manager, he wasn't my friend.

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don't care if filing invoices is beneath you. If you don't do it, who do you think is going to? Your boss? Nope. That's why she hired you.

My journey into the world of work after that was a bit more piecemeal than I would have liked, and it took a while to find the place in the world where I truly felt I belonged.

My motto is, 'Just earn it.'

I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work.

When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart is.

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

My time is focused on family and work. I need to find a way to spend more time with my friends - and cycling.

One thing I disliked about being a lawyer was billing for my time.

I love working with friends; it's my favorite thing to do. I've found over the years that that ends up being the best way to spend my time.

Of course I live in my time, and I'm really curious. But, at the same time, I don't think it has a direct impact on my work.

One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that I've gotten to see all these different ways that people work and the way movies are constructed from the inside out, from beginning to end.

Ironically, the more deliberate we are in our work - cranking through our inboxes, clearing our to-do lists - the more myopic we become.

I love working in the kitchen, but when that's the only thing you're doing, you have a very myopic view.

In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across.

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

What was special about Leonard Cohen's work was its calm mystery.

It is a myth that married women do not get work. Those days are gone now. So, if you think I hid my marriage for that reason, it's not true.

There are a lot of myths about food banks, but the truth is that many people are increasingly having to turn to them just to put food on the table, including many in work.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.