Will To Work Quotes

The way you present your work has a lot to do with how people receive and regard it.

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

In a collaboration, each author will do 75% of the work.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

Id love to work in the States; Id love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

It's very easy to get caught up in - there's a hype going on now that I haven't seen in years, and it's actually more about press than it is about an actor's work or what films they've been in.

I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents

I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

Collaboration. ... For me, it has informed every move I've ever made. And it saved me in many ways and still does. When things get hard, you can cling to the work.

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?

Arguing with a man doesn't work.

When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering.

We goofed around a lot and acted silly. It was great working with Mark Wahlberg too. Some off scenes I had with him I was terrified to do, but he was great.

I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm most convenient to use!

I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with.

If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

People should tell your children what life is all about - it's about work.

What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.

Part of my journey is sort of learning the ways that I'm unconsciously blocked and trying to open them up. I'm a complete "work in progress" in that area.

Most of my friends all tend to work in restaurants part time, doing acting classes on the side.

When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.

When you do multiple things you love, it doesn't feel like work.

You have your personal life and you have work life; when it's combined, it's difficult.

I make fun of guys when I like them. I act like I'm 10 years old. I do it as a test to see if they can laugh at themselves. If they get sensitive, then it's like, 'Um, this isn't going to work.'

Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.

Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly.

I try not to think too much or be too impatient, and let the back of my brain do its mysterious work.

It's not easy to make friends when you're an adult writer outside of academia, especially when you work alone in a little room for twelve hours a day, and so I wrote toward what I most longed for.

Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.

The songs that you work and work and work on sometimes are just forced and not as good.

Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.

Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?

I am really excited that we have Jemaine Clement in the show [X-men], because I freakin' love Flight of the Concords. It was so exciting to work with him.

I definitely like clothes as much as the next girl, just not to the extent of people who work in the fashion industry.