Work Quotes
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It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about.
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I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.
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In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.
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Humans are very good at making algorithms work eventually.
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Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'
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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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I am the first to point out that I really am not kind to illustrators. By that, I mean I really don't give that much to work with.
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It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think, 'You just work. You just keep working.' And in some ways I wish I could be a guy who's just a workhorse.
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They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
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All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.
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I never wanted to get paid by the hour. If I was going to do more work than another guy, I wanted to get paid more.
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I kind of muddled through 'Pride & Prejudice,' but with 'Atonement,' I knew what I was doing. That makes it sound like I had no doubt. I had doubts - I didn't know whether it would work. But I knew exactly what I wanted to try to do.
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Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
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I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
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I've seen some women who are not particularly attractive but they have an assurance, and there's something so attractive about someone who doesn't have to work so hard.
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A lot of people who are 'social media' stars aren't considered to be 'real' stars, and people underestimate the amount of work it takes to edit and upload a video every single day and document your life like that.
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I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.
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It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn...
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Whether you work with your family or someone from outside, you can't take the audience for granted.
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A writer's work is to witness things.
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Hard work always wins in the end.
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Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.
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My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels.
