Do The Work Quotes

I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

Fortunately work begets work.

There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on "The Simpsons". See, there's "The Simpsons", and then there's everything else.

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

You can't work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing.

With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.

Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.

I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is to do the best work I possibly can. And that is what means the most, that is what will endure.

I don't feel that censorship keeps me from doing the work, though. I'm my bigger censor.

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

Just think of yourself as starting from zero every time. That's what I do with every new role. I'm at zero, and I'm going to do the work.

All the truly great stand-ups say, "I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work." To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.

I want to continue to expand my game a little more, build my body and work on staying strong so I can play the way I've been playing, and holding my ground the way I've been holding my ground.

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going back and trying again, trying to do better each time.

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way... Sometimes people are just really nasty.

I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then you leave, and it's done.

I would like to do something really big and then something really small, and see what it's like to work in that way, but in front of a live audience.

I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.

I think I was almost 12, so I knew who George C. Scott was, but if I could work with George C. Scott now, I'd be so pumped.

I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a cheerful pessimist.

Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.

I'm extremely, extremely lucky to be who I am and do what I do and work with the people I work with. Even though I can always find something to complain about, I find it very hard to complain.

I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.

I'm not a painter who's saying, "I want people to see my work when I die; it will be this and that." That's not satisfying to me.

Oulipo ends where the work begins.

Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn't particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They are rewards he voluntarily strives for.

The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel for his characters and their twisted, damaged lives; he makes you *want* to feel.

I felt like I did lots of crappy work in the past. I can't even tell.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.