Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes

I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material.

I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.

I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

You're going to spend a long time with the stuff you work on; you might as well like it.

I don't think I've worked a day in my life.

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to work, then you do work that you wanna do.

I need to love what I do, because I'm going to give 110 percent. I'm going to be working from 6 in the morning until 10 P.M., so I need to make sure I like it.

Emmerdale' is a great place to work and I genuinely wouldn't be here if I didn't want to be.

The minute I stepped foot on the shop floor and started serving in a retail environment, I knew it was the career for me. I was a shop assistant for just one day, and I thought, 'This is it. This is the rest of my life. This is all I want to do.'

I find success to be being able to do what you love and provide for your family by doing what you love.

When you're working in service to a big project, there's always the question of, 'Is there total freedom to do what I think is right artistically, or is this a job?' It's okay for things to be a job. I'm perfectly comfortable working. I don't need to sit around and quench whatever personal artistic thirst I have at all times.

I am quite content with my work in Malayalam cinema, and so there was never any reason to look outside for opportunities.

I love waking up in my home and being with my children and my husband. And I get an enormous amount of satisfaction out of my work. I really love working. I said it: I love working. It really grounds me, and I like helping people.

I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.

You've got to find a sweet spot where you skill meets your passion, meets your job.

You never say never, but I am very, very comfortable in the position I'm in with 'Lucha Underground.' I love their schedule, I love their style, I love what they have to offer.

People shouldn't choose their careers on whether it's cool or not. They should choose their careers on, 'Are they good at it, do they love it, is it going to give them a good life?'

Not everybody gets to wake up and do what they love.

For me, quality of role is important, and if a role excites me, I do it.

I feel very lucky that I have this career that allows me to say, 'I'm ready to start now on this project,' and I can go and do it.