Go To Work Quotes

I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet -- only 30 or 40 minutes every other day. I keep supple for myself more than for roles.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does for awhile become family.

[John Larroquette] is very generous as the star of a show. He always made sure that if we had a joke that didn't work or something, he'd fight for the other actors.

I think [John Larroquette] did a great job. I really do. And he's so wonderful and generous to work with.

I'd always thought that acting was, like, you had to work really hard, you had to change the way you walked, you talked, and all of that. But that's not acting. That's shmacting.

I'm fortunate that I've been an athlete, my whole life, and I work out like a crazy person.

I just can't seem to make myself care about what I look like when I am working out.

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

I pretty much work all the time.

I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work.

Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to hear practical advice.

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.

I would loathe to work on modern films.

I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.

It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them.

If he'd expected to be pampered and coddled through his undercover assignments, he would have gone to work for the CIA.

I get up, get coffee, and go into my home office. I check email and Twitter before I start work, but I have to try not to get too distracted.

There are only those you can live with, and those you can work to change.

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing a novel. I was wrong! Writing is a lot harder than I ever imagined - but worth it.

I absolutely love Vancouver! One, because the city is beautiful and very easily walkable, and two, because the city keeps giving me work!

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.

I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.

I'm certainly much happier when I feel that the work is good.

I think I certainly know that the space I want to work in is a fearless space.

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

I've been really lucky to work with a lot of really great actors, so watching the films back, it's really important to admire the people that you were working with and see their full performance.

I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.

I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.

On a very technical level, I am a geek who is interested in the intricacy of rhythm playing, so I like comparing and working out its details.

When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.

I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.

I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try to work from.

Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone.

I'm not married and I don't have kids, and so I like to go to work.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

That's exactly why nature always trumps gardens. Gardens are just reality pruned of chaos. What doesn't work you rip out.

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

Living in the world of the workshop, which I do as a teacher, you have to be articulate about craft. And that often involves imposing analysis on work that's in a pretty raw state.

A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.

I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.