Do The Work Quotes

Certainly, nothing would stop me coming home for Christmas, if I can. But I've worked a lot in theatre, and in theatre in New York, we work Christmas Day a lot of the time as well.

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

Being a chef would be too much hard work.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.

I ride my bike, I work out, I do a bit of, er, dancey things.

If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.

I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age.

Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.

I wake up very early in the morning. I like to start in the dark, and I never work at night, because my brain is evaporated by 4 P.M.

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?

The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.

I am very lucky to have the opportunity to travel to so many amazing destinations for work!

There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling.

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly.

I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people.

I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.

I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.

The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

I don't starve myself. Anyone who knows me will tell you I have an appetite. I'd much rather work out and not diet than not work out and have to diet.

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.

I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.

When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.

If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.

I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting.