Work Quotes

I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.

A lot of my work is with children and there's a reason for that, because they really level you.

I work hard and I will always work hard. But I feel very lucky with the way that it has all come together.

I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.

But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.

Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.

And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.

And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well.

I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.

I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.

People expect me to be with some stripper... That's just the kind of woman I work with.

For too many, to work means having less income.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

I would make a horrible politician, because I wouldn't enjoy my work.

I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.