Professional Drive Quotes

I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!

I remember telling my dad, 'I'm working 14- to 16-hour days and I don't care. I can't wait to get back to work.'

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

I'm kind of a workaholic.

If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off.

Obviously, as long as I enjoy it, I'm fit, and have the desire to work 100 per cent every day with the same motivation, then I want to play.

Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

I gave up my childhood for a career.

When I think of my career and why I leaned in, it comes down to basic survival.

I want the undisputed career. I want the best damn career. I want to be the best guy ever to do this.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

New Yorkers are obsessed with youth and eternal youth and then their careers and making money.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

I see the young guys coming out of college. They are bombing it past me. They hit it so far, they are leaving me in the dust.

Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.

No, I like normal life but I will go crazy if I'm not working. I'll say to my mom, "I'm going crazy! I'm going stir crazy!" I love my house. I love my family. I love my animals. Sometimes, I just want to work whether its on location here in Michigan or back in LA. I just want to work, work, work. It's what I want to do with the rest of my life so, yes, I do go a little bit crazy when I'm not working.

Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt...It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up - as we do what is expected of us, and then some.

When 'Rent: Live' was announced, I bugged everybody. The creatives, Fox, the producers, my team - I have to be Mark Cohen. It almost got to a laughable point for me. I was like, 'I have to be Mark Cohen.'

I was so clear on the fact that I wanted to be a journalist that I asked my parents if I could go to a tutorial college to do my O-levels early, which I did when I was 13.

Having done what I've done at 24 years old, I'm not the kind of person who likes to be out of work.

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.