Work Quotes

"And so I love films that are kind of rural in atmosphere. And you know, it's just a nice place to be day after day. All be it, it can be hard, it can be hard work. You can get hot"

Keith Carradine, Actor

"Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work"

Theodor Svedberg, Scientist

"After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is"

Donald Judd, Artist

"A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does"

Georg Baselitz, Artist

"The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility"

Oded Fehr, Actor

"If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive"

Ron Silver, Actor

"Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work"

Robert James Graves, Scientist

"But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be"

Richard Serra, Sculptor

"In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself"

Michael Ritchie, Director

"When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work"

Mandy Patinkin, Actor

"I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce"

Malcolm Wilson, Politician

"I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"And for me, it's been, not only where I learned, but the people that I met there. Most of the people that I work with are guys that, one way or another, have been associated with the university"

Jon Secada, Musician

"I took the ET job because I wanted to stop traveling and they said I would only work half a day. Then I could work on music the rest of the day. They put in my contract that I wouldn't work after 1 P.M"

John Tesh, Musician

"I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit"

James Brown, Musician

"Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business"

Dwayne Hickman, Actor

"I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them"

Daniel Smith, Politician

"We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves"

Clive Bell, Critic

"Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again"

Brandi Chastain, Athlete

"The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands"

Bhumibol Adulyadej, Statesman

"Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way"

Will Ferrell, Comedian

"Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation"

Vito Fossella, Politician

"We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together"

Valerie Jarrett, Lawyer

"My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together"

Valerie Jarrett, Lawyer

"I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give"

Steve Guttenberg, Actor

"I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season"

Sarah Caldwell, Celebrity

"For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later"

Salma Hayek, Actress

"But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent"

Patrice Leconte, Director

"In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders"

Vernon L. Smith, Economist

"The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting"

Sasha Alexander, Actress

"I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo"

Richard H. Davis

"I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist"

Pam Grier, Actress

"There are a lot of people in this business that don't work consistently"

Morris Chestnut, Actor

"Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press"

Mike Rogers

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