Famous Quotes: Work

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.
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I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
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I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that's the thing that I'm not so comfortable with.
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You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.
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Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
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I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
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Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
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People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.
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When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.
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And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.
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