Work Quotes

"My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air"

Martin Milner, Actor

"My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work"

Mark Mothersbaugh, Musician

"I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art"

Clara Schumann, Musician

"At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died"

Jonathan Davis, Musician

"I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise"

Wietse Venema, Scientist

"Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience"

Thomas Perry, Musician

"I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work"

Roy Ayers, Musician

"One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River"

Ron Kind, Politician

"I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying 'Would you like to work with Al Pacino?' I would go crazy"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"With my guys and with the way that we live out there, we work out a lot and try to eat right, but we try to basically keep it our own rhythm and our own world"

Brad Paisley, Musician

"I have the same attitude with work - I like to go to work, I like to work really hard I, like to give everything my all, I like to try things that are new, you know"

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Model

"That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"It's fun working on the set... I usually work about 10 and a half hours a day, and I also study about five of those hours. It can be tiring, but it's fun!"

Mila Kunis, Actress

"Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment"

Jeffrey Jones, Actor

"I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history"

Jared Diamond, Author

"The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses"

Tom Allen, Politician

"For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard"

Shawn Wayans, Actor

"I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming"

Sandra Bernhard, Actress

"People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me"

Michael C. Hall, Actor

"I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East"

Paul Bremer, Statesman

"When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it"

Patrick Dempsey, Actor

"I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different"

Victoria Pratt, Actress

"Love's a recurring theme through my work"

Tracy Chapman, Musician

"Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work"

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

"After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists"

Robyn Hitchcock, Musician

"We stand ready to work together, where possible, in helping rebuild not only homes and businesses, but most importantly, lives of those who so desperately need our help"

Marc Morial, Politician

"But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!"

Richard Simmons, Celebrity

"I have one president at a time. I only work for you"

Richard M. Helms, Celebrity

"The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way"

Jenny Shipley, Statesman

"It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work"

John Hewson, Politician

"We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"I've had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work is still the same. I didn't really notice the difference other than I was getting dressed behind a curtain, basically"

Jennifer Beals, Actress

"You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate"

Jenifer Lewis, Actress

"My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

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