Work Quotes

You have to work hard at things.

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too serio

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.

However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.

I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.

I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before...I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.