Eugene Levy Quotes

I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.

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• I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Women

• It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Children

• My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• I've never seen hard work fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and being respected in America, and I've always liked Kate Winslet and her work and respected her.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • America
  • Tradition

• When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Work
  • God
  • Jump

• I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.

  

  Val Kilmer
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  • Love
  • Environment

• With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• When employees feel anonymous in the eyes of their managers, they simply cannot love their work, no matter how much money they make or how wonderful their jobs seem to be.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Work
  • Money
  • Love

• I said three things when I woke up in Walter Reed. 'I love you.' 'Put me to work,' and 'You stink! Go shower!'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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• The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.

  

  Hamid Karzai
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  • Believe
  • War

• I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • World
  • Work
  • Create

• In real life, I'm the type of girl who doesn't take herself too seriously. I'm very serious when it comes to work, but I like to make jokes and have a good laugh and make fun of myself.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them.

  

  Vince Cable
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  • Work
  • Party

• Is a man’s body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life - not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, 'It’s a woman’s and man’s right to choose because it is a woman’s and man’s body at stake.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Work
  • Desire
  • Competition

• Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Work
  • Learning

• I am already experiencing something better than being a pop star and that's being a father. It's the best job in the world. A lot of work, but a lot of fun.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • Work
  • Job

• Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Work
  • Control
  • Better

• Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Truth

• Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage.

  

  Jason Reynolds
  • Courage
  • Fly
  • Integrity

• I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.

  

  Eugene Levy
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