work quotes

“Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.”

“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.”

— William Shakespeare

“By the work one knows the workman. ”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“But the shortest works are always the best. ”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.”

— Dennis Quaid

“I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.”

— Dennis Quaid

“There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful. ”

— Dennis Quaid

“Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.' ”

— Robert Rodriguez

“I kind of like working fast.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there. ”

— Robert Rodriguez

“Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“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

“The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“I love working with great actors.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty”

— Quentin Tarantino

“And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube.”

— Erno Rubik

“Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.”

— Lil Wayne

“I don't think nothing. I just do my work.”

— Lil Wayne

“It feels good to have your work respected again.”

— Eminem

“It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“I hate working out - I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny, saying things like, 'I can't do it!' ”

— Christina Aguilera

“I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often.”

— Christina Aguilera

“I'm a hard worker and I really give to my fans through my shows. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy. ”

— Christina Aguilera

“I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind. ”

— George Washington Bush

“Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority. ”

— Jim Carrey

“I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. ”

— Jim Carrey