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Quotes About Industry

The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.
~ John Stuart Mill
Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.
~ John Stuart Mill
I work in a creative industry. My work isn't terribly hard, it's artistically explorative, so I have no complaints.
~ Kristen Bell
I just don't feel like - I've never felt like - part of the entertainment industry. I still just feel like I'm trying to work my way in. And that's weird.
~ Kurt Fuller
I definitely like clothes as much as the next girl, just not to the extent of people who work in the fashion industry.
~ Lauren Weisberger
I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.
~ Lynn Shelton
I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
~ Macaulay Culkin
Today I want to dispel this myth, because it is absolutely not true .[ that ARV's work ] The pharmaceutical industry and those who have a vested interest in the drug industry fuels this propaganda.
~ Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.
~ Marc Guggenheim
I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it
~ Marg Helgenberger
When WHO works with the private sector, the Organization takes all possible measures to ensure its work to develop policy and guidelines is protected from industry influence.
~ Margaret Chan
It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.
~ Mary Lynn Rajskub
One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.
~ Michael Crichton
I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.
~ Michael Vartan
Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music into mass music. That's exactly how it happened.
~ Michel'le
I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.
~ Mila Kunis
At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.
~ Morgan Brittany
I work with a lot of movie stars.
~ Norman Jewison
I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
~ Parker Posey
You make a horror film that's not very good. You'd be joining a long line, in a long video aisle, of stuff that doesn't work.
~ Patrick Fabian
There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on "The Simpsons". See, there's "The Simpsons", and then there's everything else.
~ Patrick Warburton
Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.
~ Peter Stone
I have less control over how I'm cast and the jobs that I get than people would imagine. Most of us don't have control over that, but I think it's a preponderance of your body of work.
~ Unknown
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
~ Philip Treacy