I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.
Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.
I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.
I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.
Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.
There's nothing like working with the best actors possible, and if you have a piece of material like, 'Long Way Down' or 'Love Punch,' which allows you to play, then it's just a joy to go to work.
It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.
My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other." [ ]
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
If you work hard enough at something that doesn’t matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do.
You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.
Cut the crap! I don’t care how many hours you work, I care how much work you do in those hours.
Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.
