Work Quotes

"So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily."

"Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas."

"I'm in the facial-hair phase of my career."

"The only constant I can find is hard work."

"I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work."

"Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain."

"I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something."

"My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened."

"Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am."

"I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage."

"The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe."

"I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky."

"Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day."

"I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same."

"Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work."

"My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice."

"The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility."

"This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember."

"I had a lot of time to think in the service; I swore that, if I survived, nothing would keep me from an acting career."

"I don't live to work; I work to live."