Working Quotes

It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids.

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

I started working when I was seven, and ever since then I've been saving for an apartment. Even before that I had a little jam jar designated for my apartment money.

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I've worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them.

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.

I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.

I drank more wine when I wasn't working as much, to be honest.

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together.

If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally.

I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results.

It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.

You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics.

When I'm not working I just like to be comfortable: I love black, nothing tight, no heels, no make-up - it's nice to be able to breathe!

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

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood.

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work.

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working.

I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.