I'm having fun, and I'm waking up every morning and my staff is waking up every morning looking at each other and saying, 'What can we do today that would be really cool?' I cannot complain about my life.
This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
Good work is such an incredible payoff. And I know that I'll be working until the end, because good work excites me.
I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.
The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26.
I think I had a lot of impact on every player. Maybe it sounds cocky, but if I don't feel I have an impact or a big impact, I wouldn't be able to be excited about my work every day.
Work needs to be exciting enough to take someone as lazy as me out of my home.
How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?
It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.
I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're putting it. Television show. Movie. Projected on the back of someone's garage." If that's where the work is that's exciting to me and moving, I want to be there.
Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.
However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.
I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
In France, we don't yet have the craft that American TV does or big studios like Paramount. It was so cool going through those famous gates when you have your own little pass and picture on it. Woo hoo, I'm going to work!
We've worked on hundreds of cars and there's always something different so it's hard to get bored of individual vehicles.
What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.
I always like auditioning because it's like, 'Oh, my God, I have an audition - yay!' It means opportunity for work, which is great. But it's scary as well, because you put so much pressure on yourself.
I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.
I'm always excited to work and excited to be on a show as good as 'Dexter,' for sure.
I love going to work. I love being on-set everyday. It feeds me; it's exciting.
You have that first joy of finding work, and then to become part of a show like 'Call the Midwife' - which I have watched religiously with my mum since it started -is doubly brilliant.
The hardest gig there is in entertainment is to be the lead in an hour show, especially if it's a show that's blood and guts and fighting. It's rough. I love to work, but to do something different is really exciting.
I am high-strung and high-energy. My blood pressure is always high, and I am always excited to go to work.
To be a part of a show that makes that not feel demanding and makes it feel natural and makes you want to go to work, every day, and be excited about it, from what I hear, that's pretty rare.
