All Quotes

I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009.
‐‐ Margaret Stohl

I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
‐‐ Gavin Hood

I worked my butt off in high school and received a lot of scholarships for college and to throw all that away for acting was tough for my family, but it was just something I felt my heart pulling me towards and don't regret a single minute of it. I love to act!
‐‐ Kellan Lutz

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.
‐‐ Fred Tomaselli

I worked my way through law school.
‐‐ Brian Sandoval

I worked my way through the education system and was treated as though I had value.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
‐‐ Groucho Marx

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
‐‐ Jefferson Davis

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.
‐‐ Dick Van Dyke

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
‐‐ Richard Linklater

I worked on a farm for a little bit.
‐‐ Jack O'Connell

I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a lot different from that of other youngsters.
‐‐ Chuck Klein

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.
‐‐ Dwayne Hickman

I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.
‐‐ Michael Bond

I worked on dramas before, I love sinking my teeth into something dramatic or a period piece, but there's something so fun about doing a comedy. When you go to set and your only job is to make people laugh, there's an unbelievable energy on set.
‐‐ Skylar Astin

I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
‐‐ Barry Corbin

I worked on movies with a lot of violence when I was a cinematographer, and it always bothered me. It's a personal thing. I wouldn't want my kids to see it. I certainly believe that freedom of expression shouldn't be taken away, but I also believe you can make movies that are thrilling and exciting without too much violence.
‐‐ Jan de Bont

I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
‐‐ Jessica Lange

I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how generous everyone was to me when I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know the rules, and I didn't know camera angles, and I didn't know lighting.
‐‐ Summer Glau

I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.
‐‐ Kurt Masur

I worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange back when they used to write tickets. And I was just a runner. So a guy would write a ticket and I would run it, and it was endless. That was a hard job. And I dug tungsten... for a coal company in Wyoming one summer, and that was pretty miserable.
‐‐ John C. McGinley

I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
‐‐ Action Bronson

I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
‐‐ Larry King

I worked on this Showtime series called 'Beggars and Choosers,' this was like 2000, and Bea Arthur guest-starred on our show. I always loved 'The Golden Girls,' and thought she was a supreme comedy actress, supreme actress period.
‐‐ Sherri Saum

I worked on three independent movies in close succession and... I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make your days, get it done, keep everyone happy, which is a huge thing in a movie, and to steer the ship.
‐‐ Michael Urie

I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.
‐‐ Jim Gaffigan

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.
‐‐ Preston Sturges

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

I worked out; I moved 16 times from the age of 19, just hopping about from different flats, because I couldn't always afford to stay.
‐‐ Michelle Dockery

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

I worked really hard, and I surpassed myself... I didn't have, visually, what it took. I was not pretty, I had teeth problems, and I was very skinny. I didn't fit the mold.
‐‐ Celine Dion

I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.
‐‐ Merle Dandridge

I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.
‐‐ Julia Stiles

I worked selling tickets for Dodger Stadium; I delivered pizza; I did every job under the sun. It's the part that sucks as an artist. But I've learned at the end of the day you just have to enjoy your life.
‐‐ Jeremy Luke

I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.
‐‐ Annie Dillard

I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.
‐‐ Michelle Pfeiffer

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.
‐‐ James Franco

I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
‐‐ Ralph Allen

I worked two days in Texas and two days in Hollywood on 'Bonnie and Clyde,' and that was it. I had no idea how it was going to turn out. And when I saw it, I was so upset, or fascinated, or something, by the sight of myself on the screen that I could hardly pay attention to the rest of the movie.
‐‐ Gene Wilder

I worked under Francis Schmidt, and he was the biggest influence on my coaching career.
‐‐ Sid Gillman

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.
‐‐ Anna Kournikova

I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.
‐‐ Liza Minnelli

I worked very hard on me and David's record and I'm extremely proud of the record, as most people are who were involved with it. And, it's been wonderfully received by people who like our kind of music, they think it's something special, and so do I.
‐‐ Graham Nash

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
‐‐ Shimon Peres

I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.
‐‐ Earl Scruggs

I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.
‐‐ David James Elliott

I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.
‐‐ Kristanna Loken