Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

A man and his tools make a man and his trade.

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.

A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.

As far as I'm concerned, any work you get is because people have heard other work you've done.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.

As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.

I've been making shoes my whole life.

I realized that work doesn't beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

For me, at the end of the day, I want to be judged for my work, not for what I've been through and past experiences, necessarily.

You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

Be not a shoemaker nor yet a shaft maker save for thyself alone: let the shoe be misshapen, or crooked the shaft, and a curse on thy head will be called.

If you're a plumber, you plumb. I'm an actor. I act.

I have a lot of respect for what I do, for this profession.

When you see the industry's fickleness so early on, you realise that you are only as good as your last release. It is all about your work. And that has set the way I look at my profession and what I do in my career.

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.

Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work, and you can see that in the work. That defines what type of actor you are. And what kind of people want to work with you. And whether you can do this job for a long, long time.