Quotes About Work

I'm constantly working. I am constantly going to the next thing.

I think one of the things that started to hinder Baldwin as an artist later on was that he became really aware of power, so he wanted it, too. But if you look at the work before that, before 'The Fire Next Time' put him on the cover of 'Time Magazine,' it was much more intimate and a much more internal conversation.

If you have a bad experience on the air, you don't think you've done your job, or you have an embarrassing moment. I guarantee you'll work harder the next time not to let it happen again.

I think everybody is intimidated by Jack Nicholson. But he was really nice to work with.

But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

It's interesting, because I've worked with people who are just not nice people, and I've worked with people who are crazy, and the difference is: crazy is much worse.

I like a restaurant called Bruci, and there's some really nice people who work there and good food. They change their menu a lot, so maybe that's what keeps me coming back. I never know what I'm going to get.

When you're nice, people like you and will want to work with you. But it can mean that they take you for granted.

I think villainy just comes naturally to me. I get to work it out naturally so I can be a nice person in life.

We don't have entitlements as part of our family heritage. If you want nice things in life, if you want to get ahead, you have to earn it.

If you treat people nicely, and you allow them to fulfill a role that is satisfying for them, they'll accomplish a lot, and they'll enjoy their work.

I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I want to play with my daughter or watch a movie with my husband or go outside on the nicest day of the year. But if writing is going to be your job, you have to treat it like a job.

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

In the nicest possible way, my first job was at Sainsbury's - my mum worked there, and I was a bag packer.

It's really, really tough being a woman. I think about getting work done all the time. Look at Nicole Kidman - her face is completely done.

I work predominantly with tailors from Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.

If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work.

Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

In Hollywood, you still have wonderful actors, but it's so hard to work there. To work becomes a Kafka nightmare - it's the last communist country!

You always have the nightmare of, you know, working with the guy that you've just admired forever, and then he's just totally disengaged and awful to be around.

I've been so lucky in all my jobs. I just, you know, when you hear nightmare stories of other jobs - which I'm sure are true, but I've been lucky and never experienced them.

Each job I do is a bit of a logistical nightmare because of the kids, so I always feel like I need a good rest afterwards.