Work Quotes
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When I joined the music scene, a lot of big-ticket singers were not getting good work... It was a lean phase.
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.
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I hate those unrealistic goals that people place on women. It's just not right. It took us nine months to have our babies and put on this weight. I gained 55 pounds with my daughter, so I get it. It's tough. But you can't just pop out a baby and expect to be the size you were before. It just doesn't work like that.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.
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I'd love to work with Cher Lloyd; that would be my dream person to work with.
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There are times everyone needs to be together for me and we all just work together; making sure that my energy is good and right when I go do what I'm going to do. That means the family needs to spend time together.
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
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My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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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.
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The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
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It's like you work with people, and based on the size of the budget, you sometimes can't pay them what they deserve.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.
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You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.
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I think work begets work.
