Top 100 Quotes About Working A Lot
#1. Vocal arrangements are something I'm working a lot with for the new songs.
Jens Lekman
#2. I think if you only work, then you won't have a life. It's tough to have a life when you're working a lot.
Ansel Elgort
#3. I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.
Heather Langenkamp
#4. I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.
Sheila Heti
#5. I have been very fortunate, working a lot in TV, and have been able to dip into the film world a little bit here and there.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
#6. I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.
Charlize Theron
#7. I don't know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about it and things that were difficult.
Jennifer Connelly
#8. It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.
Ted Williams
#9. I've been working a lot with Dick Smith on overpopulation.
Bindi Irwin
#10. I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
Ben Mendelsohn
#11. It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but other wise the people have been very nice and I've had a good time.
Bo Derek
#12. A lot of actors won't do things because they say it is boring when you are always working. A lot of them won't go on tour, a lot won't do pantomime. I think you should do everything.
Victor Spinetti
#14. My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.
Bo Derek
#15. I've been working a lot with identity and roots, being part of your roots. I went into this topic where I was trying to break the stereotype of Arabic language. The non-translation work, this is where I make the switch, where you don't need to translate.
EL Seed
#16. He's working a lot harder than I am. I tell these people that we really appreciate what they're doing for us.
Mark Kelly
#17. Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.
James Van Der Beek
#18. There was a time when I wasn't working a lot. It ebbs and flows. Mostly I was just living my life and playing 'Fallout 3,' a very fun game.
Matthew Perry
#19. We don't put gender roles on our marriage and our relationship. If I'm working a lot and Cory's home, he will put Cree to bed, and if dishes need to be washed, he will wash them. So it's not like, 'Oh, I'm going to wait until my wife gets home, and she's going to be doing all that.'
Tia Mowry
#20. I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.
Abhishek Bachchan
#21. I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.
Robin Wright
#22. I've been working a lot on figuring out how to sing differently and better. I want to become a better singer. I want to sing out more. I want to me more extroverted, vocally.
Sufjan Stevens
#23. When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
Barbra Streisand
#24. Rutger Hauer is a very famous Dutch actor who did quite a lot internationally. Another Dutch actress who is working a lot is called Famke Janssen. There's a few more.
Michiel Huisman
#25. My crazy's working a lot better than your sanity.
Gini Koch
#26. It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.
Ice Cube
#27. Five women working together is never going to be easy. It's a lot. But God is so incredible, in terms of the timing, because we are all married with kids, in our late 30s and 40s. It's a different stage in our lives. It's not about who is going to be the one that's going to pop.
Roselyn Sanchez
#28. You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
A.S. Byatt
#29. A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.
Marcel Carne
#30. At my age, people prefer to stay in a relationship that is not working. I do not understand that. I think it takes a lot of courage to separate. But it takes more energy to stay in something that is not working.
Isabel Allende
#31. Interestingly, people often boast that they are hard workers not understanding that hardworking means spending a lot of time and energy on work.
Eraldo Banovac
#32. There's one thing which I hate about color films ... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.
Claude Chabrol
#33. There's a lot more emphasis placed on torsion and coil and leverage. Basically, the women are being taught very much along the same lines as the men. You don't have to consider strength as a factor so much. These girls are working out like fiends. It's a trend that's going to continue.
David Leadbetter
#34. I do think that people who are now in their sixties and their seventies are living a different kind of life than their grandparents led, even in these tough times. A lot of them are more active, a lot of them are still working, which was not the case when our grandparents were in their sixties.
Anna Quindlen
#35. I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.
Hugh Laurie
#36. I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
Natalia Vodianova
#37. A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
#38. If you're working 12-hour days, then you come home to do three hours' homework, it's quite a lot on your plate.
Anna Popplewell
#39. We can't spend all day trying to get the performance exactly right and you just have to accept that and move on and accept the medium that you're working in and you know, there's a beauty in working under constraints and limitations. I think a lot of great things can come out of that.
Emily Deschanel
#40. I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
India De Beaufort
#41. I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working.
Alaina Huffman
#42. I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working.
Charlie Kimball
#43. I don't think anyone cares whether you're working or not. I have the luxury now of not having to support anyone and not really needing a whole lot of money.
Michael Cera
#44. Now, a lot of people may be surprised at that, but I'm very dedicated to working out. Usually, it's running. It clears my mind, totally. I get on the treadmill, which I just bought, and I run on that for about 40-45 minutes.
Viola Davis
#45. My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.
Junot Diaz
#46. I loved working on 'Donnie Darko.' I learned a lot from the cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and the producers. I love doing what I do because I get to meet so many great people.
Daveigh Chase
#47. I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.
Marc Newson
#48. A lot of my work is helping people to find their own life's purpose and then follow it. I find that when people are not working on their life's purpose there is a sense of emptiness and anxiety.
Doreen Virtue
#49. I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding ... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.
Melissa Etheridge
#50. Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.
Christopher Parker
#51. Yeah, I like working in television, a lot. I really enjoyed my time on 'Lost.' I like developing that hint of family with people. I mean, if you're on a happy set. If you're on a set where there's some sour apples, then I don't like working in television.
Terry O'Quinn
#52. I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.
Harold Ramis
#53. I wanted to show a different side of ourselves. I wanted to see in what ways I could explore something new. I felt like working on a double record would give people a lot to have.
Zachary Cole Smith
#54. I spent a lot of my youth working outside in the elements, and I kind of revel in defeating tough weather.
Nick Offerman
#55. When I was young I was working with a lot of people being out in the south. My uncle wrote for Al Green and I was around Al a lot.
Drake
#56. I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.
Charlie Kaufman
#57. The nomadic lifestyle does work for a lot of working parents, but I've traveled and I've seen it, and I want to be able to go home at night and see my daughter. I want to be there for her first day of school and her school recital. Honestly, television is what offers me that.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#58. I'm not really that hard-working. We've hung out a lot, and you know that I don't work harder than you. Everyone else is just really lazy. People do half a thing, and then they just go out to lunch.
Josh Smith
#59. I've done a lot of self-improvement. I'm always working on being a better person.
Joel Madden
#60. I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind ... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh my god!' So I made up for a lot of lost time very quickly. It was kind of bonkers. Working hard, partying hard - but also experiencing life, you know.
Anne-Marie Duff
#61. I have a lot of watches that need to be kept wound, so if I take two of them on a trip, there's always one sitting around. And if it sits around for a day, then it'll stop working. And then you have to reset the time and date, which is annoying.
Mark Teixeira
#62. I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book ... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
Ace Frehley
#63. Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lot busier.
Lee DeWyze
#64. I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.
Andy Summers
#65. The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.
Michiel Huisman
#66. As we're about to see, by striving for even greater genetic perfection we might be eliminating a lot more than just millions of people who don't fit the societal norms we've created. We might actually be eradicating the very solutions to the medical problems we're working so hard to solve.
Sharon Moalem
#67. I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of working on a book. You have to watch out with the slutty new idea.
Matt De La Pena
#68. I am always working on new material with my production partner Phil Murphy in our guise as Man Ray; we do a lot of soundtrack work & some great collaborations.
Peter Hook
#69. Anybody who prefers working to being pretty and fucking a lot probably hasn't done enough of either.
Sienna McQuillen
#70. I have a great team. A lot of my focus every day is with my television and film career, directing and producing, and I guess you can say that my moonlighting gig is Tropfest. Obviously, when I am not working I am in the Tropfest office full-time.
John Polson
#71. I must say that in my early years, I was incredibly aggressive. I was working as hard as I could to build a business, to try to dominate a business. And I probably irritated a lot of people.
Michael Ovitz
#72. People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
Laurie Anderson
#73. ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.
Magic Johnson
#74. My writing process hasn't changed - it's is the same whether I'm working on a Y.A. novel or, as now, a new novel for adults. A lot of reading, a lot of research if the subject warrants it, a lot of sticky notes and scraps of paper - and get to work.
Kathe Koja
#75. When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
Zooey Deschanel
#76. If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.
Patti Stanger
#77. A lot of the people I know connect through working. We're all so ambitious. Sometimes my friends will say, 'I want to hang out with you.' And I just go, 'Well, let's do a project together.' That's the only way I can.
Jill Soloway
#78. All over this country you have progressive communities like Madison and Burlington, but we've got to go well, well, well outside of those communities. We've got to go to the rural areas. We've got to go where a lot of working people are voting Republican.
Bernie Sanders
#79. There's something odd about working 24/7, being consumed with everything that's happening in Iraq, and then coming back to the country that ordered you over there only to realize that a lot of Americans are not really paying attention.
Phil Klay
#80. I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
Urs Fischer
#81. I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.
Billy Gardell
#82. A lot of times, working in stand up, you're by yourself, and so you just have to rely on yourself only ... but I like working in an ensemble.
Josh McDermitt
#83. If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's going to happen next, then it's a waste. I have a lot to be thankful for.
Ewen Bremner
#84. I love Toronto, I have spent a lot of time up there working. There's a lot of stuff going on there.
Steve Zahn
#85. I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids, which helps. I'm always working on something, whether a book, or a law review article that no one will ever read, or teaching. It pretty much means I work a lot, but it's all stuff I love.
Alafair Burke
#86. When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.
Beau Willimon
#87. I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.
Richard Dooling
#88. Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got to learn a lot. I'm glad I got to explore getting comfortable in my own shoes in the background on a show like 'Gossip Girl.'
Dreama Walker
#89. It's very strange what happens when I start working for a film. In my life I've done a lot of stuff - I did a lot of dance music, a lot of TV shows and lots of different types of films - and every time it is a new experience.
Claudio Simonetti
#90. But a lot of things probably will never change - like our friendships and our working relationships. As far as me and Patrick [Stump, the singer] and all of Fall Out Boy, it's in a vacuum.
Pete Wentz
#91. Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.
Mark Rydell
#92. We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
Charles Kettering
#93. Writing 'Deadpool' can be a lot of fun. When I first started working with the character, I wasn't sure I'd like him. I quickly realized, though, that a writer can do pretty much anything with him - comedic stories, serious stories, completely nonsensical stories.
Cullen Bunn
#94. I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.
Emma Donoghue
#95. Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.
Gil Gerard
#96. When I haven't been working I've tried to travel a lot.
Emma Watson
#97. I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
Bill Wyman
#98. I think a lot of people see, obviously, the business side of my father. But, I mean, he's just a great guy. We enjoyed the holidays so much. To be able to spend time with him when he's not necessarily working or not doing the political thing, I mean, he's much more of a blue collar American.
Donald Trump Jr.
#99. The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.
Joe Biden
#100. Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to writing, stories would just be working in my head for so long that when I started to write I was deep into them. Now, I do that work by filling notebooks.
Alice Munro
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