Work Quotes
“Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?”
“For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
-- Samuel Butler
“We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.”
-- Hillary Clinton
“I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.”
-- Harvey Fierstein
“No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.”
-- Henry Miller
“I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.”
-- William Shatner