Working Quotes

Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well.

Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

There's more of a family connection when you're working on a TV show. That's not to say that you don't make great connections when you're working on films, but it's different unless you're there working every day.

I like working with kids. I just have a way with kids.

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.

When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.

'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.

I really enjoy working on small films.

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.

I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.

I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.

We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to attract inward investment from overseas - you know particularly from the big Asian countries - they see Britain as a gateway to Europe. They don't want any doubts cast upon that.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.

I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born!

You will find this hard to believe, but I've never laughed as much as I did when I was a corporate lawyer. When you're working 16 hours a day for months at a time, you get punchy. Everything and everyone seems hilarious.

What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.

If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them.

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.

Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.

I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation.

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.

Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.

I really liked working with Sean Paul; he is a very attractive guy, very hot. He was fun; the chemistry was really great, it was great to be in the moment.

'Party Down' is the most fun I've ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it's very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It's way, way, way too short.

I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.

I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.

Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.

I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep... having insomnia.

My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.

I miss my kids sometimes and that can get me down when I've been away working, but then I wake up and recognize how incredibly lucky I am. Spending time being down is less time out there achieving and enjoying.

I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows.

I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent.

When I go on location, we have a schedule. And when you have a schedule, you know when you're not working, so I train very well on location. But I also train three or four times a week at home, but today I train differently than before.

In the past, I was working out too heavy.

I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.

I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as a kid, I never felt like a kid actor, you know? I always took myself kind of absurdly seriously.

Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.

You'll like this, not a lot, but you'll like it.

I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.

I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours.

We are constantly working towards the highest level of compliance possible.

An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.

Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

They should be working, and there isn't enough work.

There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.