Work Quotes
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I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work.
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I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of memorizing their lines, and the whole process of starting to work with the other actors and the director, and doing rehearsals, and going to the location, and going through wardrobe.
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I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.
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I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.
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I know I'm only as good as the material I've got to work with. I'm not an alchemist, not when it comes to writing or production.
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My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.
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It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.
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You've got to know how to hustle. I got a lot of inspiration from my parents. My father was definitely a hustler. With six kids in the house, you always got to be hustling. And my mom, she's got sick work ethic.
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The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.
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I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work!
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I don't really care what anyone else is doing. I'm only focussed on my work.
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For generations, Americans who aren't rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots - want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged.
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Bombay, which sold about 120,000 copies, is widely rated as my most successful work, though Roja is definitely the score that brought me where I am today.
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My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
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The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.
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The percentage of people that go to drama college in the U.K. is probably just like anywhere in the world. It's a very hard business to work in. They say that, at any one time, there's only 5% of actors in the world that are actually working and getting paid, which is a shocking percentage, really.
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We knew at one time we could sue, but nobody wants to sue the people they work for, ... But they just kept stalling us and putting this off. So we went ahead and sued them, but we're still trying to negotiate a contract with them and we would like to do both.
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For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to job.
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Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.
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I believe that every Nobel Laureate has the feeling that this prize is really a gift - because nobody can or should work just for this prize.
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We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.
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My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime.
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When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.
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I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.
