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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Constructing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You work on a play or movie, you have the whole script, so you're constructing a performance based on the bible that you have. In TV, you don't, so to actually invest in that and let that be the exciting part is terrifying and certainly leaves room for mistakes, looking back.
- Drastically
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think having worked in a department store setting, if my life had not taken a drastically different turn when I became an actor, there's a very high probability I would have continued to work at the department store.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. I'm not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny because from the time I was a kid, I knew what I was going to do. What's even funnier is that my dad and my grandfather didn't want me to work at the pawn shop, but I was deadset on it.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wake up at 5:30 in the morning, get to the Pawn Shop at six, work out for two hours, film until seven at night.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would work at a 7-Eleven even if I was retired just so I could have something to do every day.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are plenty of days when I would love to get in my truck, drive to work, walk behind the pawn counter and just do a regular job.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very private guy, so it's an adjustment for me, but a welcomed one, as long as the work remains the focus.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, we never got to see a hero who didn't have superpowers who looked like us, that you could kind of look to and say, 'I could be that guy one day. I could be a patriot. I could be a soldier. I could work in the government and be a hero.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We work so hard on our craft, and once we get out of Duke Ellington, there are not going to be people looking for technique. I worry about that a lot.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so OCD about prep work and learning lines and stuff.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020