Brian Eno Quotes

I just try to keep making good records, try to write songs the best way I can and take my job seriously. Like most people take their jobs.

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.

But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.' Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.

They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.

If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it.

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.

I do my work to the best of my capacity. I don't pick a role looking at its length. I take up a film because I would like to see it.

You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.

It matters to me, acting. It's what I do. It's what I've given up a lot to do. It's my life source. And I guess I'm too serious about it sometimes, but I want to treat it right.

Denzel's all about the work. He's all about the acting. He's an actor. He'll tell you himself, 'I'm not a movie star, celebrity, something else. I'm an actor.' He steps on a set, that's what he is, and that's what he gives you. He gives his heart.

If I can't put my heart and soul into a film, I don't take it up.

Whatever film you do, even if it's a children's film, you do with the same amount of sincerity.

Everything I involve myself with is an extension of me, so I take everything super seriously, from the music to the shows. That's the only way to do it.

I don't want to sign four films at a time, as acting is an art, and art cannot be done without honesty.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.

When I am on a set and I am working, I am almost near-obsessive about it. I love the process.

The films you do are not just for the audience. As an actor, you are putting your heart and soul into them.

That's a dangerous combination, serious and rock 'n' roll. But yeah, I'm pretty serious. I've been at this a long time, and it takes a certain amount of seriousness.

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."

If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.