Working Quotes

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

I literally hate working out.

It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.

Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working!

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.

There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.

I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.

After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood.

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work.

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working.

I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.