Work Quotes

"So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity"

Charlie Hunnam, Actor

"Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out"

Iris Chang, Historian

"I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks"

Dean Koontz, Author

"I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it"

George Soros, Businessman

"I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do"

George Shearing, Musician

"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind"

Eugene Ionesco, Dramatist

"It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with"

Joe Morton, Actor

"Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?"

Barbra Streisand, Actress

"I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through"

Frank Lampard, Athlete

"No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius"

Anna Pavlova, Dancer

"I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material"

David Heyman, Producer

"Work begets work"

Brion James, Actor

"In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died"

Brion James, Actor

"The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress"

C. S. Forester, Novelist

"I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair"

Annie Dillard, Author

"It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time"

Anjelica Huston, Actress

"I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"And I just want to work with good directors and good people"

Charlie Hunnam, Actor

"I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts' work in the White House, as in the counselor's office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves"

Frank Lampard, Athlete

"I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused"

Frank Lampard, Athlete

"When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career"

Calvin Klein, Designer

"She goes on the set with headphones and gives you notes. She's terrific and I always run to her now, because she is just great to work with, as well as very good at different accents"

Albert Finney, Actor

"The work will stand, no matter what"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net"

Annie Dillard, Author

"I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates"

Anthony Michael Hall, Actor

"But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They're still very much the same kids that I met many years ago. They've grown up and they are funny and wicked and naughty and bright, and I think as actors their work is just getting better and better. They've blossomed"

David Heyman, Producer

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