Quotes About Career

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.

The fact that I fell into this seemed more like a stroke of good fortune than hard work. Not to say that I didn't work hard, but it wasn't like, "I'm going to be a musician."

It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.

I'm probably going to have to work hard on my right knee for the rest of my career.

If I have a chance to try in Hollywood I will grab it. What is important is that the work is good - if it's a good role I will grab it. I simply want to do good work and I don't mind where it is.

It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.

I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!

I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.

I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.

Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

I loved the travel but I didn't love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

When I try to get work in the US all they say is that I need to lose weight - but I bet they never said that to Mae West.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.