Work Quotes
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Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words that were written on the page, and you have to make your marks. That's the work.
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I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.
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There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.
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Acting is fun for me and it doesn't really matter how, whether it's hard work or easy work, it's always fun.
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When you’re a certain artist and you do all this work, you leave the world with words, music, and art — but you leave your family with no daddy.
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If we don't put our faith to work we will soon discover that we have a faith that doesn't work!
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I've made a career of being a contrarian. If I'm going to work with Tom Cruise, it's my instinct to be like, 'Well, I'm going to do the anti-Tom Cruise movie.'
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Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.
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Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel like going straight back to bed. But I still have to get up and work, and I still have to take advantage of the chances I've been given in life.
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Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.
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Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.
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When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
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Marriage is a commitment, so you always have to work at it.
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Playing solo with an audience for an hour and 30 minutes without a break means I have to, as the jazz cats say, get into the shed and work on my chops.
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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it!
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I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.
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I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels. We know their names. They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all. A healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin, and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident, common sense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all...
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Henry James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice period piece, but that's not always the case. There's a deep human mystery in his work.
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I-I don't usually go around throwing rocks at people's windows. Or saying that I've wanted to kiss you since your first day at work, when you wanted to know why we had three codes for fish sandwiches when we only sold one kind.
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People thinks that being world No. 4 and the first seeded player of an event you have to win it, but we all know tennis does not work like this.
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I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.
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People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.
