Work Quotes
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There are elements of irony in my work, of course.
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I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.
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Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.
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It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.
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Whether I'm at home in London or in Paris for Loewe, I always like to walk to work.
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My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
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It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who better to look out for your best interests than family?
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You cannot work with men who won't work with you.
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Movies take a long time because movies take a long damn time to put work into. Whereas music, you don't have as much time. I didn't realize that.
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You can't do your work worrying about what people will think of it - you kind of just have to do your work.
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I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.
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The painting never changes once I've started to paint it. I work things out before-hand in the sketches.
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Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and you do the lights and the sets and you make the machine of the production work. It takes usually about ten days in the theater, two or three weeks if it's a really big musical. I mean, it's hell on earth. You just sit around forever while they adjust the lights. And every playwright with half a brain runs for the hills when tech starts because it's so boring, and you don't want to talk to the director because the director is running this giant machine.
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I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.'
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When you're good-looking, I think you usually don't have to work as hard.
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I think the responsibility that any actor has is to bring some truth to the work.
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I work out every day. I still feel fit and energetic. In a way, I'm healthier now that I'm pregnant.
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I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.
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I was just glad to be going to work again.
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We have to think big. We have to imagine big, and that's part of the problem. We're letting other people imagine and lead us down what paths they want to take us. Sometimes they're very limited in the way their ideas are constructed. We need to imagine much more broadly. That's the work of a writer, and more writers should look at it.
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It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.
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I do a lot of improvising when I'm writing, and I work very hard on the scripts... they are written very much in an actor-friendly way.
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When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.
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I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work.
