Tika Sumpter quote: "I used to work at a movie theater and sold hams at Honey Baked Ham during the holidays. I sold a ton of hams, and they offered me a regular job there, which I turned down. I feel like anything you do, just do it 100% because then that work ethic will bleed through when it's time to work on your dreams."

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.
SHARON OLDS

I think that you find out what your boss wants you to do, and you do more. To me, that's work et...
THOM TILLIS

I feel like I'm making a difference. I feel like putting out a message for young girls to follow...
WILLOW SMITH

Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor...
TYLER PERRY

To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ...
BRENT M. JONES

When I turned 12 or 13 years old, even as a dad, you can't make a kid play anymore, but up until...
BILLY BUTLER

If you work hard at anything, you're going to experience some success. And the greatest gift is ...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find th...
HELMUT JAHN

I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a ...
BILLY PORTER

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to...
ALAN BALL

I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle c...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'...
MADISON PETTIS

I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came...
JOHN C. REILLY

Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I ca...
MATT HOLLIDAY

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a hig...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT

I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the...
ZOE FOSTER BLAKE

I've gone through long periods of time when there's no work for me. You wait for the next jo...
CHARLIE COX

When I first heard that they were going to make 'Beauty and the Beast' at Disney, I was like...
BYRON HOWARD

I love helping people and I love what I do. This isn't work to me. When my job starts feeling like a...
BENNIE GIBBS

Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a...
LUIS BUNUEL

“ When I am at work place i am on holidays otherwise I am at job"
DR. SHAILESH THAKER

Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay becau...
URSULA BURNS

to work with the best material that is offered to me at a time when I need to work, and with the bes...
AIDAN QUINN

My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' call...
PAMELA ANDERSON

I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
BABYFACE

I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting...
NATALIE ZEA

I think the selection is great. I think he's going to do a great job and I know his work ethic, and ...
ED FARMER

The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very in...
BRIAN DENNEHY

Cycling has never felt like a job. To get paid for something that you absolutely love is amazing. I ...
LAURA TROTT

We go through 20 cases of ham a week. That's 40 hams every week.
LINDA ALLEN

It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm goin...
CANDACE BUSHNELL

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if i...
ROBERT DE NIRO

I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What ...
BOYD HOLBROOK

I just have work to do; I just do it.
IAN MACKAYE

What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell ...
PHILIP PULLMAN

I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as m...
KATHERINE WATERSTON

You see, we capitalists will never actually ask you to work overtime. I don't even track your ho...
NICK HANAUER

In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays,...
ERIN O'CONNOR

I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, 'I'...
JIMMY FALLON

I can see my work as a job. I do it for money. I likely already look forward to the weekend on Thurs...
STEFAN SAGMEISTER

I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revi...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN

I don't work at something because I think it's important. I work at things that, to me, are ...
EUGENIE CLARK

I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other fil...
LANCE GROSS

I used to work for the Clippers - I sold tickets - so I was in the Staples Center all the time. I...
CHARLES MICHAEL DAVIS

I have a work ethic. If I say I'm going to do something, I do it.
VIGGO MORTENSEN

Some liberals have a problem with me simply because I work at Fox, and nothing I do short of stormin...
ALAN COLMES

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no ...
SEAN BEAN

There's nothing nicer than getting a round of applause for turning up for work. It's amazing...
JAMES CORDEN

If money is tight, or you're on a limited budget, then consider DIY or used gifts. DIY could be ...
JOHN RAMPTON

Even when I was an engineer, I was a comic on my job. At birthday and holiday parties, I was the one...
LONI LOVE

I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theate...
JACK WAGNER

I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for ...
MATT GROENING

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a ...
NASTASSJA KINSKI

There's not much time to unwind, but you know what, it's because I love what I do. I look fo...
TOM BRADY

I used to work at this store, and I got fired when I actually booked the job on 'Glee' becau...
TAYLOUR PAIGE

I work out at Will Space four times a week. It's a private training gym. It's owned by my tr...
ANDY COHEN

I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they ...
EVA GREEN

There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't fe...
EDDIE VAN HALEN

When I auditioned for 'Jessie,' I knew that Disney Channel basically will do 100 episodes of...
KEVIN CHAMBERLIN

A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to kn...
BURNING SPEAR

I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just wan...
MATTHEW RHYS

A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and ...
HALIMA ADEN

I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many yea...
MATT DAMON

No question, these guys work hard every day in practice. They understand how I operate and how I wor...
ALEX BUTLER

I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that becau...
HENRY ROLLINS

I was a hostess, I sold shoes, but I don't function well in jobs that don't have to do with ...
NINA ARIANDA

I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on...
MARLA MAPLES

I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make e...
NAYA RIVERA

I would love to do a big-budget movie musical - I feel like there is one big musical movie a year. A...
AUTUMN REESER

Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recogni...
WALTER MURCH

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
DAMIEN HIRST

By being a waiter 100 percent, I think I was a lot like any other actor in New York. I had credits b...
JOHN KRASINSKI

I really feel like my goal, and I don't always achieve it, is to do the best work I can do, and ...
ALAN BALL

I just want to do more work. Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do....
ERNEST BORGNINE

I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me to do it. I d...
HARUKI MURAKAMI

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I wil...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER

I work hard at what I do, and it does take time and a lot of commitment, so for me, it is proving to...
TALI LENNOX

A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to deme...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE

My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things th...
KATE MICUCCI

I do like to do TV work when it's firing on all cylinders.
HUGH DILLON

When I first arrived in Los Angeles I became a little bogged down in the whole success thing. Now I&...
JOHN GLOVER

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the str...
JUICY J

The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rin...
CONNOR FRANTA

I come from the theater, where the response to your work is immediate, and I suppose there's a p...
BRYAN COGMAN

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a l...
LONI LOVE

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRY

I know it's cliche to say, 'When you do something you love you never work a day in your life...
TIKA SUMPTER

I want to work in a bank, definitely. Hopefully, my acting career will go well. But if it doesn'...
TENA DESAE

I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwrite...
OTIS BLACKWELL

I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pic...
SEBASTIAN THRUN

Once I get the plays down, then I can focus on post moves, which I need to work on. I just don't wan...
CASSIE KERNS

I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal thin...
ED SHEERAN

I always enjoy the job and the work that I do, because that's the condition that I attach in acc...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it...
DAVID BYRNE

I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it...
ANDY WARHOL

When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can t...
HELMUT JAHN

I was offered to do a night-time soap after The Beverly Hillbillies. There was so much I didn't want...
DONNA DOUGLAS

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