Work & Career: Work Quotes

"If you can make your work feel good, then productivity takes care of itself"

Ali Abdaal, Entrepreneur

"I've never wanted to be a lady who lunches - I've always wanted to be a woman who works"

Meghan Markle, Actress

"I don't like the limelight. I don't like to be on camera. I don't like to be on the front page of the newspaper. I just want to do my job"

Robert Kardashian, Lawyer

"Bobby Troup and I have been working together for about a year in clubs. We work in the same club"

Julie London, Musician

"In addition, we also hire many senior citizens"

Carl Karcher, Businessman

"As long as you're getting along, it's nice to work with someone you know well"

Luke Wilson, Actor

"I have loved hosting over the years, simply because I love working with people. It's the perfect job"

Wink Martindale, Entertainer

"One day I think it's the greatest idea ever that I'm working on. The next day I think it's the worst that I've ever worked on - and I swing between that a lot. Some days I'm very happy with what I'm doing, and the next day I am desperate - it's not working out!"

Eric Carle, Author

"That Days of Our Lives thing for a week nearly killed me"

Lesley-Anne Down, Actress

"As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job"

Michael Moriarty, Actor

"I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand, I do enjoy watching the law, and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them"

John Grisham, Writer

"We need foreign skills to stay competitive"

Hassanal Bolkiah, Statesman

"I was just glad to be going to work again"

Rebecca De Mornay, Actress

"We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office"

Pete Stark, Politician

"This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job"

Ian Hislop, Editor

"Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely"

Carol Ann Duffy, Poet

"I do get a lot of requests for specific things"

Michael Winslow, Actor

"The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting"

Lee Hazlewood, Musician

"I listen to some of the comments on WIP - they're playing parts of the press conference - and I can see where people would read into things. But if anyone was at the press conference, I think would sense how much I enjoyed Philly and how I loved working for those people"

Larry Brown, Writer

"All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do"

Jonathan Frid, Actor

"That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't"

Jimmy Kimmel, Celebrity

"I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage"

Bebe Neuwirth, Actress

"I've also been busy doing stuff for Steve Jackson Games"

Phil Foglio, Cartoonist

"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

"Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration"

Tim Johnson, Politician

"In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that"

Terry Gilliam, Director

"I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money!"

Fred Ward, Actor

"In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability, then we should create conditions for them to work"

Nong Duc Manh, Politician

"Don't say it's because of benefits, because our benefits are good"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life - It is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me"

Rick Moranis, Actor

"I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort"

Walter Hill, Director

"To work is to feel alive"

Tony Bennett, Musician

"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony"

Noah Wyle, Actor

"And then I did one called High Rollers and that was a lot of fun"

Wink Martindale, Entertainer

"Hmm, mmm, I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get"

Matthew McGrory, Actor

"I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress"

Stacey Dash, Actress

"I'm a lousy journalist"

Judith Rossner, Novelist

"You know, I am mainstream America, and it really doesn't matter what party you're in. When you call your children and you say 'How are you?' - and what you are really asking is, 'Do you still have your job? And are you able to make the mortgage payment?', That resonates across the state, not across party lines"

Sharron Angle, Politician

"At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos"

Dee Dee Warwick, Musician

"If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do"

Carlos Alazraqui, Actor

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