Do The Work Quotes

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.

God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.

I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.

I'm a pretty intense person. And I don't know if intense is fun. I put myself through the wringer. That's just how I work.

At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.

I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work. I like peace and quiet now when I go home.

Two drinks a day. Two drinks a day. TWO DRINKS A DAY! It doesn't work! Not when you want eleven, and not when you start shopping for wine glasses in the vase department at Bloomingdales.

There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me a very unattractive proposition.

I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.

There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

Play needs direction as well as work.

I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

I get a little too obsessive with work.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

It's crucial to choose your work place - some places lend themselves to you and others don't.

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.

The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.

I actually got a crush on Anne Heche when I worked with her on Huckleberry Finn. It didn't work out.

It's always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

As an actor, you go through life thinking "This stop is the last stop," so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work.

I do want to work on a larger scale with bigger budgets partially as a way to prove that women can do that, for sure. I definitely feel a bit of a responsibility to do that.

Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.

Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.

I work with patience, which is almost power.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

For the lazy, all work is difficult.

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside-in the inner woman and her heart-and then works outward.

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?

My work is incredibly important to me personally. It brings me joy and it brings me life and it brings me meaning. It doesn't necessarily have to be important to the people who read it.

You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door.

If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.