Continuous Work Quotes

I realize I have a lot of amazing opportunities, but I don't know how you can play a human being going through real human experiences without being able to walk down the street. If you can't live a real life, how do you play a real person? It always confuses me when actors work back-to-back-to-back with no break. If you live your life on a film set, how the hell can you relate to real people? You don't know what its like to not have people fussing over you all day, and that's not life - that's silly movies. I will always want to take breaks and I wouldn't be OK with losing that.

It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day of God; but not that we should check any human effort by anticipations of its approach. We shall hasten it best by endeavoring to work out the tasks that are appointed for us here; and, therefore, reasoning as if the world were to continue under its existing dispensation, and the powers which have just been granted to us were to be continued through myriads of future ages.

I never stop. I'll never truly retire, because my mind is always on go.

You take what you've learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.

It's a marathon, not a sprint. I actually feel like I come to work stronger when I've had a little time on the weekend to step away from it and enjoy my family and other things. I come back energized. If people think they're going to work 24/7, week in and week out, they're not bringing their full strength to the table.

It's always a wonderful experience to keep working.

But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.

I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.

It's not my goal to make so many movies. It's just sort of a natural process, and I'm just doing my job. And I'm not tied to any genre; I'm willing to do anything. I just keep going.

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

I feel like Court Yard Hounds keeps us idling. I think Emily and I function better when we're continually making music and playing, and this is a way to keep doing that.

Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.

One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.

I have always said, 'Never stop work.' Continue work and sort out issues simultaneously.

I think it's an actor's job, if you can, to keep working and to keep using that muscle. First of all, you've got to pay the bills, but it also helps you develop.

You always have to continue working, because everybody is. Once you stop, the others will overtake you.

There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.

I don't think you really have to retire from what you do.

I'm never going to retire.

As an actor, you can't be off the market for too long.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

Fame is a constant effort.

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.