Do The Work Quotes

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.

I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking because people hadn't seen a woman actually riding a motorcycle before.

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

I like to connect with people through my work. That's my favorite way - meetings of the minds, fans at a show. Those are nice mediated ways of hanging out.

You work side is for everybody. When you're at home, you're not wearing heels and your work attire.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

I eat things I shouldn't eat all the time. I have to work out so I can enjoy myself! I like to run, and I'll do body weight stuff: push-ups, squats, lunges, pull-ups.

My manager has a car payment, so I work every night.

I want to be happy while I make movies and not just do things just to work. I want to do things I spend years on.

Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

The Capitol is the best work I have ever done, or shall ever do, and I am glad to have Given it to St. Paul.

Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

It's just a joy to be able to work with a lot of different musicians. When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes.

Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having. It's certainly true of Shakespeare.

Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.

If I get work done early, I can do some interacting with fans online, or see my friends. If I don't get that work done, you may not see much of me!

I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.

I love to work. I'll work all the time, unless somebody stops me. I love it, love it, love it!

I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.

Nothing gets you to mend your heart quicker than throwing yourself into work.

Never work with kids or animals.

If I ever loose my eyes, I won't have to cry no more.

I always come back around. I make it work.

Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

I think most beauty tips that work and last are kind of old.

As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.

I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better when they do it; they just look different.

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.

I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.

I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.

Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.

French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable.

There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side of his work, about Algeria, the heat and so on.

I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important.

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

But I never gave up personal things to work, never.

'I tried and it didn't work' is a lot better than, 'I wish I'd tried'.

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.

I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.

It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.

If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

One of the reasons I'm able to write books and still carry on with other work is that I do my best writing between 5am and midday.

I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.

I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter.