Work Quotes
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
Isaac D'Israeli
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I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.
Boyd Holbrook
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You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.
Dan Aykroyd
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In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.
Zak Penn
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
Beau Bridges
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
Orson Scott Card
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The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.
M. Scott Peck
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As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'
Felicity Huffman
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When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.
Alva Noto
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As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.
J. J. Abrams
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I don't feel like I need to be a successor to my mother, or her work.
Peaches Geldof
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When I'm traveling out of the country, a lot of guys give me a high five, and then they're like, 'I love your work!'
Ashley Graham
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Money is the outcome of my work and is incidental.
Dilip Shanghvi
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If you have fun and keep a good attitude, people want to work with you.
James Marsden
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I'm not totally blind to the fact that I like people to see my work, but if it's not something I would enjoy seeing in a magazine, then I think I shouldn't be making it. I think that I don't represent only myself, I represent more people; I mean, if I like it, then I think more people will like it because I think I'm quite a normal guy.
Anton Corbijn
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Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.
Warren Farrell
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You live till you die, and that's the end of it. What good is your legacy when you are dead? I worry about being alive, selling work, having fun, moving and doing things when I am alive.
James Rosenquist
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I'm a big believer of work/life balance. You need a little down time to recharge to make sure that when you're here, you're really all here. I still have a child in high school, so I go to her sporting events, even if it means leaving work and working again when I get home. I probably should work out a little more than I do.
Mary Barra
