Work Quotes
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With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom...
Alan Rickman -
You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?
Colonel Sanders
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harlie, a little psychology is a dangerous thing. i know enough to know what you’re trying to do. it won’t work. the awareness of a psychological pressure is sometimes enough to nullify it. the mere awareness.
David Gerrold -
Rajinikanth is an absolute legend to work with. Imagine meeting him every day and spending time with him on the set. Sharing the frame with him is a lifetime experience; there's a reason he is called a legend.
Amy Jackson -
Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.
Edward Burns -
The American people are really kind of tired of this finger-pointing issue and politics all the time, ... I think it would behoove all of us to work together to try to find the answers.
Dennis Hastert -
We didn't want to put any energy in. We didn't show up tonight. We didn't work tonight.
Chris Pronger -
My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness
Mary Oliver
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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
Jeremy Taylor -
I don't wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard.
Dawn Angeliqué Richard -
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
Seneca the Younger -
I got a chance to work with Judi Dench in almost every scene. How many Indian actors get that chance?
Ali Fazal -
You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.
LL Cool J -
I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day's schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.
Matthew McConaughey
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Illustration is commercial. It's work that we produce, and I think what you can do is you can draw from the pool of art, but most of it comes from a pool of knowledge.
Brian Stelfreeze -
I adore children. If I weren't an actor, I would be a teacher or work with small children in some way. I feel happy in their company.
David Thewlis -
Practically everyone I know now is from a middle- or upper-middle-class background, and I no longer have the huge chip on my shoulder that I carried around for so many years. I'm not sure it comes out much in the work, but coming from this kind of background is absolutely central to my identity, to my sense of who I am.
Geoff Dyer -
I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.
Jonathan Lethem -
About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work.
Paul LePage -
When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.
Paul Oakenfold
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Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?"
Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay -
If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.
Madame de Stael -
Voiceover work, I really enjoy. I don't get to do too much of it, but I've been doing more lately, and I like it because you get to do a bunch of options, one after the other, and you can go as big as you want or as small as you want, and you don't think about it sometimes.
Alexandra Daddario -
To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving.
Twyla Tharp