Work Quotes

• Auditioning and actually acting on a set are two different things. When you audition, you're in a room and you don't have anything to play with and you don't have anything physically in the room. Whereas on set, you have direction, you have costumes, and you have other actors to work with. It's a completely different thing.

  

  Adelaide Kane
  • Work
  • Different

• I love any excuse to work with a mortar and pestle.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Work

• I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn't mean I can't do them - I've done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic.

  

  Elisha Cuthbert
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• When I work, I disappear into work, which I like to do, and sometimes I don't really have a choice. It's not a conscious thing. It's just total devotion to what I'm doing.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Choice
  • Disappear
  • Devotion

• If you are a writer from Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, you don't have the luxury of being apolitical. You can't say, 'That's politics. I'm just doing my work.'

  

  Elif Safak
  • Work

• As a director, you want to work with great writers.

  

  Colm McCarthy
  • Work
  • Great

• Honestly, I've learned from results, period. Everything isn't a failure. Sometimes it just doesn't work. That's not a failure. Maybe it just means it wasn't its time.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • Time
  • Failure
  • Period

• There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

  

  Lucy Walker
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The one reason why I got into cooking was because I wasn't good at anything else - not that I was good at it, but it was considered honest work.

  

  David Chang
  • Good
  • Why
  • Cooking

• When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

  

  Ashley Greene
  • Work
  • Mom

• A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • People
  • Work

• There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Real
  • Job
  • Kind

• As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

  

  Jim Hodges
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Emotional

• In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.

  

  Frank Miller
  • World
  • Book
  • Bad

• You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.

  

  Donald Sutherland
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Partner

• Our smartphones can offer innovative opportunities for improving how we react to our environment, and I believe it is increasingly becoming an asset - not a hindrance - to maintaining a healthier relationship with our work, our friends, and the world around us.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friends

• I have a certain way of thinking where I see something, and I know that I want it and I make up my mind - and that's pretty much all there is to it. It was like, This is what I want to do, and I'm going, and everything's going to work out. I'm going to be an actress. There was no way around it.

  

  Ashley Greene
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I want to see my grandchildren grow up. I want to be there for my friends. I want to be able to love the person in my life. I want to work. I want to do something I've never done, which is save money. I've never bought anything. I have nothing.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• I'm just in profound gratitude that we get to go back and work on a show that we love, with amazing actors and great writers, and be a part of the Marvel universe. As with all of the characters in Jessica Jones, Trish has an alias.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Great
  • Character
  • Amazing

• Work on the Who, the Who, and the Who. Add some Who, and then explore the Who. The What and Where will reveal itself.

  

  T. J. Jagodowski
  • Work
  • Explore
  • Add

• Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Work

• Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Risk
  • Tears
  • Determination

• Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • Up
  • Work

• The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Work

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