Worked Quotes

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

You worked every day to earn what's on the table, literally. It was a week-to-week thing. And I wouldn't change it. I would not change it for anything.

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.

Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.

It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.

I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.

I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done.

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were going to cut it.

I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant.

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.

We need to ask ourselves what are we here for and what have we worked so hard to be here for.

I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.

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.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

Yes, I did some rewrites of the show as some of the stuff was not very good and I worked my butt off to make it something that the audience liked and that I could be proud of.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

We worked so hard we almost stopped enjoying it.

When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors.