Work Quotes
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Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.
Nicole Kidman
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In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at something. I do have this feeling of trust that people can read it for themselves.
Amy Sillman
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I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.
Liev Schreiber
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I was an online service provider. It's not my job to police what people are uploading. It's the job of the content owners, and the law is very clear. If you create content, and you want to protect your copyrights, you have to do the work.
Kim Dotcom
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Joe and I always say that our guide through action is always story and character. We're always driving right at the character beats, or else the action beat doesn't work.
Anthony Russo
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I'll go for the knockout, and if we have to go 12 rounds, then I'll trust the judges to do their best work, and I will get the victory if I deserve it.
Liam Smith
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I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.
Louis C. K.
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If you have a great story, any film will work.
R. Madhavan
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I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.
Thomas A. Edison
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It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.
John Hewson
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WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.
Matt Mullenweg
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Work-wise, I try not to repeat myself too often. And I have to love whatever I'm doing.
Lydia Millet
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This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.
John C. Reilly
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Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about.
Anna Paquin
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Competition gives birth to a lot of success, and if no one ever challenged you, you wouldn't go anywhere. It makes sense to compete with others for a promotion at work. But so many women take it a step further and won't even support other women. They end up competing over things that don't make sense - like how we look.
Lilly Singh
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I have to work, for my soul.
Jennifer Lopez
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I'd love to work with Gaultier, and I'm obsessed with Vivienne Westwood.
Marion Cotillard
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Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.
Caroline K. Simon
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The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.
Jonathan Kozol
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Love and serve the world through your work.
Gautama Buddha
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Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.
Peter Higgs
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My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.
Bob Diamond
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You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.
Steve Jobs
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The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.
King Vidor