Do The Work Quotes

Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.

People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

Getting work in theater has always been sort of cyclical.

When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other.

I work with wood a lot. I like building. I think of building. I would love to buy land on some water somewhere and build a house. That'd be nice.

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.

I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

To the worker, God himself lends aid.

In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.

Most people don't need to work as hard as I do.

After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?

Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, 'Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.' You just feel very self-conscious there.

The work part of a relationship is keeping it where you want it.

Marriage is a commitment, so you always have to work at it.

It's important for me to work with a strong director because I know I can go to some really deep places, I just need direction on how to get there.

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

Well television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time.

I get that some people just want to do work and keep their lives private. I think for me, it just felt like I needed to be open about who I am. It just felt like the right thing for me to do.

I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.

I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

I think you know, to not open your mind to television is silly because there's so much good work happening on television.

If I want to do the kind of work that I like to act in, I need to open my mind to it.

There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

Never work for money or power, be honest, don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for, [and] always finish what you start.

I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's.

I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

It takes a lot of energy to work, in general, especially if you're the lead in something.