To be able to work for 20 years as an actor in an industry that is not so predictable, I'm grateful every day. I'll do it till I drop, I guess - or drop out.
I'm just really trying to say what I really mean, which is: 'Your eye's on the prize, your eye's on the future. It's nice to know that a lot of wonderful things have happened to your life and that so much of it has been successful. That's great, but the work is really what makes it fun - and that has to be the future.'
Cannes is a lot of work, since it's a market festival and a serious festival, and they really work you, understandably.
I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball.
I love 'The View,' so when you're living the dream, it's not work.
My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.
I make fun of guys when I like them. I act like I'm 10 years old. I do it as a test to see if they can laugh at themselves. If they get sensitive, then it's like, 'Um, this isn't going to work.'
I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.
I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.
I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
When you see the industry's fickleness so early on, you realise that you are only as good as your last release. It is all about your work. And that has set the way I look at my profession and what I do in my career.
Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.
When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.
I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.
There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.
At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.
I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.
The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.
We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.
Work is an addiction. I've always done too much. It's in my nature.
Do we look horrendous when people don't work together? Oh, God, yes. If the leave campaign is not prepared to show that it's big enough and ugly enough to put aside party differences in the interests of this great cause, then it has a great problem.
Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.
For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.
I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it.
A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
I've been really lucky in terms of the people I've gotten to work with.
Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.
Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
