Top 100 I Work Quotes
#1. Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.
Kirk Douglas
#2. I work more than people realize. It doesn't mean you always see the project. Look at how many stations we have. I did a couple films in Australia. I like the movies.
Linda Blair
#3. I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.
Peter Zumthor
#4. I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.
Grace Kelly
#5. I love going out for any audition. I'm very professional, I study my stuff, I work on it, and even if I'm not right for the job, so what? I know I did my best.
Kellan Lutz
#6. I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
Muriel Spark
#8. I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.
Marion Jones
#9. Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in.
Ben Horowitz
#10. I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.
Annie Dillard
#11. Many of the people I work with I've worked with in other lifetimes. I moved to California because I knew that many of my students from past lives were in California.
Frederick Lenz
#12. When I work, my first relationship with people is professional.
Bill Murray
#13. I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
Terry Pratchett
#14. I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
Beth Ditto
#15. I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.
Terry Richardson
#16. I get up at 4:30 A.M. pretty much every morning during the week. I work out for an hour and a half. I do weights and I ride the bike, I run or I play tennis. It's my release.
Cheri Bustos
#17. I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like a PowerPoint lecture to something that looks like an informercial to something that looks like a cinematic melodrama.
Elizabeth Price
#18. I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge ...
Ellsworth Kelly
#19. I've been very luckily - I bought a house, I work, my life's been very blessed. I thought it would be funny to exaggerate the non-working side.
Simon Rex
#20. I didn't get here based on lineage, Travis. I'm here because I work hard. The only thing that's blue in my family lineage are the collars. The blood is just red.
Maisey Yates
#21. Understanding the materials I work with ... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.
Andy Goldsworthy
#22. For some reason, comedy just comes easily to me, and I feel like I can do it. I don't have any doubt. When I work on drama, there's always a sense of 'Did I find this person's truth at the bottom of this?' And it's hard to tell sometimes.
Andrea Anders
#23. I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose ... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.
Ellen DeGeneres
#24. When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work ...
Simmie Knox
#25. At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true ... that the material I work most with is emotion.
Albert Paley
#26. Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#27. Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.
Isaiah Washington
#28. The first thing, the main thing, about how I work is I need to understand the character.
Marion Cotillard
#29. I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid to start again. So I do something every day.
Joan Didion
#30. There are lots of people way more talented than me - but I work more, and I wanted it more. I never waited on anyone else.
Ester Dean
#31. I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.
Kathleen Turner
#32. I've been doing TV for fourteen years, and I've always had a fascination with the political business side. It's ruled my life. Ratings or no ratings have decided where I live, who I work with, and how long I'll be doing that particular job.
Charlotte Ross
#33. It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.
Lauren Oliver
#34. You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it's easy. I work long hours.
Sheryl Sandberg
#35. When I get up in the morning, I go and I work with beautiful women and charming men and funny comedians and dramatic artists. And I'm presented with costumes and great music to choose from and sets. I travel a certain amount of places, so I've been living in a bubble. And I like it.
Woody Allen
#36. I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and there, checking everything is in order and putting a part of myself into the text by introducing just a little bit of difference. ("Substitutions")
Michael Marshall Smith
#37. I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home, I want to touch reality.
Johnny Galecki
#38. I work on a word count basis, so I have to write three thousand words a day. I can write them in the morning, I can write them in the evening; as long as they get done.
Cassandra Clare
#39. I don't believe it's productive to go around and badmouth anyone that I work with, because at the end of the day, we all have to sit in front of each other and agree or disagree.
LeAnn Rimes
#40. You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
Barbara Kingsolver
#41. I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband.
Robin Marantz Henig
#42. Since I work in home solar, I can't resist focusing on the amazing developments happening here. What many homeowners don't know is that they can have solar installed on their roofs without owning the panels or paying the high upfront costs.
Lynn Jurich
#43. I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it
Stephen Leacock
#44. I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.
Lisa Bonet
#46. I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.
Criss Angel
#47. I work hard. But I play hard, too.
Pitbull
#48. I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
Anthony Minghella
#49. Now, I've changed my life to make sure I work only on what I love.
Andre Rieu
#50. The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
Russell Simmons
#51. The basketball skills I have, I've got because I work hard. When you work hard, I think you don't have to be afraid of anything.
Peja Stojakovic
#52. I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next eight novels I want to write. I feel myself pitiable, degraded on a day that I don't write.
Orhan Pamuk
#53. I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.
Warren Buffett
#54. The best thing about my job is that I work with the best creative people in the business in their fields.
Geoff Johns
#55. But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.
Philip Levine
#56. A great free joy surges through me when I work ... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes.
Clyfford Still
#57. How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.
Amy Adams
#58. I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them.
Al Gore
#59. You were laughing at where I work."
"So? You do!"
"Yes, because I work there. I'm laughing in the face of adversity, you're just laughing in my face!
David Nicholls
#60. I live my life with hope, always hope, that the future will be better than the present, but only as long as I work to make it so.
R.A. Salvatore
#61. My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.
David Guetta
#62. I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.
Robert Benchley
#63. The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
Jane Austen
#64. I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.
Wael Ghonim
#65. One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.
Jack Abramoff
#66. I like to keep my budgets at a certain price when I work for someone else, and even more so now that I'm working for myself, and use new technologies to deliver films that look like they have high production levels.
Robert Rodriguez
#67. I tend to be conversational and loose with dialogue in general, not out of disrespect for the source material but because that's the way I work.
Clark Duke
#68. I travel so much when I work, I've really been happy to do 'Nice Work' because I feel like a true New Yorker again. I have my little regimen during the day, and I can take advantage of the museums and the things that I love. And people watching!
Blythe Danner
#69. I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.
Chris Johnson
#70. My early attempts writing plays, which are very poetic, did not use the language that I work in now. I didn't recognize the poetry in everyday language of black America. I thought I had to change it to create art.
August Wilson
#71. Everybody just tries to be successful. Like, sure, it's good to be successful, but if you're working that hard? This is how I feel, I work so many hours a day, and I'm always working, I'm always traveling.
Justin Bieber
#72. I work in a restaurant in an airport in Taiwan. I am eighteen years old and I don't like my job because everyone gets on planes and leaves. And I want to leave too.
Kerem Mermutlu
#73. Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
Sam Worthington
#74. I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
Kate Middleton
#75. I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard to make the words evoke particular images, thoughts, feelings, the mystery of relationships.
Jay Neugeboren
#76. I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.
Kevin Garnett
#77. I'm always so proud of everything I work on. I love seeing it.
Daniela Bobadilla
#78. When I was younger, I didn't know who a lot of those people were because I couldn't watch any of their movies. I actually get way more starstruck now. I think starstruck is the wrong word - I get overly enthusiastic about who I work with.
Liana Liberato
#79. I work out of silence, because silence makes up for my actual lack of working space. Silence substitutes for actual space, for psychological distance, for a sense of privacy and intactness. In this sense silence is absolutely necessary.
Radka Donnell
#81. I work pretty hard, and struggle, and things are hard, but the most important thing to remember is that I have beautiful children that I love, and I love them.
Steve Kimock
#83. Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.
Patrick Warburton
#84. I think people don't think I work, because I wear stilettos and look damn fine. But that's discrimination against stilettos and against looking damn fine! And I object to this form of discrimination!
C. JoyBell C.
#85. I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.
Gene Roddenberry
#86. I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#87. I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
Barbara Mertz
#88. I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life ... The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training.
Gabe Jennings
#89. The way I work is that I never let people do an assembly. I don't like it because it shapes the film in a way that I can't really control. To me, editing is making the film and it's a huge process and editors are under-rated.
Julie Delpy
#90. Every time I work on a project, I keep every little piece of paper.
Micah Lexier
#91. It doesn't matter at all for me that I work in hospital or anywhere with limited space. Every day, I'm creating new works with all my might.
Yayoi Kusama
#92. I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.
Tony Kushner
#93. I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
Harriet Walter
#94. I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
Nick Lowe
#95. 'Grey Gardens' consumed my life for over two and a half years. It really takes its toll on the family. I'm not there to tuck them in, help them with homework and eat dinner with them. When I work on a show, I only have about 20 minutes a day with my family.
Christine Ebersole
#96. I work in both very strict conditions and very loose, more open-minded conditions in advertising, and Nike is by far the most open-minded of all.
Casey Neistat
#97. I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.
Hector Elizondo
#98. I work at a retirement home. I'm a CNA."
"What's that?"
"It stands for Certified Nursing Assistant."
"That sounds important," I said.
She laughed. "If changing old people's diapers is important."
I thought for a moment, then said, "It is for the old people.
Richard Paul Evans
#99. All my friends are funny, witty, fun-loving people. As are my parents, and the people I work with. I get at least a couple of good laughs in every day.
Toks Olagundoye
#100. I work out a lot and I do yoga and I do Pilates and I'm kind of athletic. I've taken dance classes, but at the same point I'm just a total klutz.
Heather Graham
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