All Quotes

Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the book. In that case, I felt I was guardian of the work, staying as true to the novel as I could. I've since met the novelist, and he loves the movie and the script.
‐‐ Brian Helgeland

Working on any show that works is the best job you can possibly have in any area of the business. You've got so much going for you, a good community, everybody's hanging together, and you get to do it every week.
‐‐ James L. Brooks

Working on art, as opposed to being in a constant collaborative state, as in a band, is something that I've always done - to a smaller degree, but it always remained a part of my integral self.
‐‐ Kim Gordon

Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
‐‐ Laura Marano

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
‐‐ Bernadette Peters

Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.
‐‐ Nate Berkus

Working on 'Comedy Bang Bang,' we're there from 10-7, and that's a pretty light day compared to most other TV shows. Other shows, it's like 10-10.
‐‐ Scott Aukerman

Working on 'Dexter' is like shooting one big movie every year.
‐‐ David Zayas

Working on 'Downton Abbey' is amazing, but there's an ensemble cast of between 18 and 21 actors. With 'Love Life,' there are two couples and a few other key characters. As a smaller unit, you've got to take more responsibility - at the same time, you can have more ownership of the direction it's going in.
‐‐ Rob James-Collier

Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.
‐‐ Guy Pearce

Working on 'Fresh Off the Boat' has been really enlightening to me because it's made me actually think about the roles that Asians and Asian-American women have played in media. Not because I didn't think it was important before, but because before, I was really focused on just paying my rent.
‐‐ Constance Wu

Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
‐‐ Adam Driver

Working on 'Good Luck Charlie' has been an awesome experience, and it's so crazy to build a fan base and have all those people tune into the show.
‐‐ Bridgit Mendler

Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got to learn a lot. I'm glad I got to explore getting comfortable in my own shoes in the background on a show like 'Gossip Girl.'
‐‐ Dreama Walker

Working on 'Honeymoon,' an independent movie, was almost like working on TV with the space, and everything was stripped down - costume and hair and makeup. There was very little to hide behind, and you absolutely had to create the character from within.
‐‐ Rose Leslie

Working on 'Housewives' was very similar to 'Sex and the City.' Different cities, of course, but a high level of talent in the writing and acting on both!
‐‐ Kyle MacLachlan

Working on 'King Of Texas' was a life experience for me.
‐‐ Marcia Gay Harden

Working on 'Laguna' was great because just being in production and shooting stuff and having to go back and relive some things, and there were some lines here and there that the producers would want us to say, and just kind of, you're forced to recreate moments, and just working on the show was so much fun.
‐‐ Stephen Colletti

Working on 'Lonely, I'm Not' - I love the material so much, and it's spring in New York, so I'm walking home whistling every day.
‐‐ Topher Grace

Working on 'Mad Men,' everything is word for word. And, honestly, I couldn't come up with anything better than that, so it's fine.
‐‐ Jessica Pare

Working on 'Malibu Country' with Reba McEntire is truly a gift. She is one of the nicest people that I have ever had a the pleasure to be around. She is so professional and always on time and has it together. It really is a joy to be around her.
‐‐ Sara Rue

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
‐‐ Daniel Clowes

Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
‐‐ Natassia Malthe

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

Working on new projects gives you the opportunity to learn and absorb new things.
‐‐ Michelle Ryan

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.
‐‐ Tom Wolfe

Working on 'Newsroom' has given me an appreciation of the struggle that you go through on the 24-hour news cycle. The people who are legitimately attempting to deliver honest news are really facing a tough, uphill climb that's a lot harder than any other time in history.
‐‐ Thomas Sadoski

Working on 'NYPD Blue' and '24', those two series, I did full runs on those. It's great work, but everything has to align. The producers have to want you; the network has to want you; there has to be great writing; and it's not as easy as it may appear to the outsiders to make all those things align.
‐‐ Ricky Schroder

Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit of a Londoner.
‐‐ Sam Heughan

Working on 'Parks' was like heaven because everyone there was just intimidatingly intelligent and funny, and we would have these hilarious debates about really tangential things. It was inspiring because I felt really challenged to be my best.
‐‐ Chelsea Peretti

Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.
‐‐ Lucas Neff

Working on 'Skyfall' was the most enjoyable experience I've ever had on a movie, ever.
‐‐ John Logan

Working on solo material is something I had always dreamed of doing, and I'm incredibly happy with the results. 'Everything To Me' is a very personal song to me lyrically; it is such an upbeat and optimistic record, perfect for the summer. I can't wait for people to hear it!
‐‐ Shane Filan

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.
‐‐ Christopher Parker

Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
‐‐ Madeleine Stowe

Working on the Dave Chappelle show was amazing.
‐‐ Bill Burr

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
‐‐ Jim McKay

Working on the franchise and getting direction from George Lucas - it's something that I never thought would take place.
‐‐ Samuel Witwer

Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.
‐‐ Seann William Scott

Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.
‐‐ Lucy Liu

Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.
‐‐ Atom Egoyan

Working on 'The War Room' was a thrill, not only because we were given such exquisite access to the nerve center of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, but for me personally, it was so exciting to be producing my first film and working with documentary filmmaking legends D.A. Pannebaker and Chris Hegedus, who were the film's directors.
‐‐ R. J. Cutler

Working on 'X Men,' I got to do a lot of flying and fighting, which was good fun.
‐‐ Ben Hardy

Working opposite Max Greenfield is the best job in the world. He's just incredible.
‐‐ Hannah Simone

Working out anchors my day.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand - I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence - and peace of mind.
‐‐ Sebastian Stan

Working out another system to replace Newton's laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one's common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman