Rod Taylor Quotes

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

I don't get paid like a person that everyone knows, but I get paid so much more in so many ways.

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.

Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people.

I don't want only a career.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

I'm saved every day by the intrinsic value of the work I do, which I truly enjoy.

Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

I like to work. I believe that work helps us find our self worth.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me.

Work is at the core of human dignity.

Personally, I've never done things just for money.

I never did films for the money or because I needed to buy a house or car. I do it because I love my job.

I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work?

I never wanted to be defined by what I did for a living.

You don't need to be defined by your job.

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.