Do The Work Quotes

I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do.

Back to work. If I’m [writing] I’m not thinking about the crazy.

For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.

I don't think about better. You just want it to work. You want it to work and you have your guide with the script. You want it to exist and complete.

It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.

I would rather not work than play in a movie that nobody watches.

I like the work that I get to do.

... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

A little oil makes machinery work easy.

Competition was as much as respecting your opponent's work as introspecting on your own.

I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

I think violence in movies, for it to work, you have to use it smartly. People get numb very fast. If you have too much violence in the beginning, it gets to a point where you don't feel it.

I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

I would work as hard as possible at school so I could keep acting alongside.

I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends.

In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

Now younger actresses will have a confidence in those discussions with their agents and be able to say, "Can we make sure that I'm being paid the right amount for the work that I'm doing?"

I'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside. In my work I fight for, I hope, showing women in a true way. They've got brains.

Whenever another Latino tells me they're more Mexican than me I stop working and let them do the work for me.

I used to work at UPS I got fired for unloading packages into my car.

I had to work with a psychiatrist.

I work out all the time. Cardio, resistance and a lot of jogging. I love to go hiking. I'm going to invest this in myself, into my self-worth, into my self-esteem.

Working out is really the top thing in my life that I do for my own self-esteem and self-worth.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.

God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

We'll work with any designer producing something linked to gastronomy. So a chair for the dining area, a van to move food around. Anything that's connected to the gastronomic process.

Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning

Most of the time you need something to fight against. If something is bothering me, then the only way to get past it is to work through it.

I have a dark sense of humor, so I definitely like to work on stuff like that. I do enjoy working in comedies where I can create a fun and broad character.

Ask God's blessings on your work but don't ask Him to do it for you.

Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

I like people. Humanity. My family is a part of my work. They contribute throughout the process with critiques, advice, opinions, etc.

I can't work without a Good L.A. weed. That's the thing you miss the most.

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.

[On parenthood:] You can't change your mind--you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell.

The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will.

My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.