Kate Winslet Quotes

I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.

I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change.

I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.

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.

The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.

I work very hard, you know, but I don't think that I'm working, because what I do pleases me so much. I write about certain things because certain things happen to me.

You've got to love what you do. You've got to like doing it, because it is a lot of your life.

I love what I do; that is the foundation of whatever I do.

I don't know how to be professional. But I always enjoy what I do.

I think as long as acting feels fulfilling and continues to feel fulfilling, it's worth it to me.

You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

I live below my means because it makes what I do seem less like a job and more like a passion.

Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. You don't have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don't like it you'll never be successful in it.

I don't ever want an acting to be a job. I want this to be an outlet for my creativity, and something I just simply enjoy doing. I don't ever want it to become something too serious.

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

Enjoying your work is essential. If your work becomes an expression of your own ideas, you will surely enjoy it.

... the more you love what you do, the harder it is to do it well enough to get by yourself.

I don't want to be a Hollywood star. I just want to do my job and enjoy it. My aim is to find my true identity and to remain true to myself.