Working Quotes

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.

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Another part of the global war on terrorism that Canada and the United States are working on together is in helping failed states, states like Afghanistan, where people have no voice.

I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.

And when that's working, the sum can be greater than the parts.

I never stopped working.

I love working with young people which to me is a big kick.

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.

I'm very proud of being Italian-American, but people don't realize that the mafia is just this aberration. The real community is built on the working man, the guy who's the cop, the fireman, the truck driver, the bus driver.

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

For the last four or five years, I had been in the position where I didn't have to take a pilot. I took this one because the script and the people were terrific. It never frightened me. As we were doing the pilot, I could tell that it was working.

One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.

Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.