Quotes About Career

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

I believe no one can afford, endure or can stomach leaving half a life in the parking lot when she or he goes to work. It's a lousy way to live and a lousy way to work.

The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.

I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.

My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.