John Cooper Clarke Quotes

Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

Everything I have done in my career I have done from my values and doing things the way I like to do. So winning doesn't matter the world for me.

I've always said that I'm an employee and I respect that status but I'm the type of guy who walks in the front door and I'll walk out the front door if it's not right.

I just wish that I am always true to my work and myself and value the respect that my parents have earned.

We have so little control as actors, but there are ways you can maintain your integrity. I have to say I've never compromised myself in this career once. I've never done something I didn't believe in.

Hustle, Loyalty, Respect.

I dont care what you do fo you respect, but i would die for mine

What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.

If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.

I don't care about the respect of the press or the public or anybody. Whose respect every day I'm trying to garner is the respect of my children and my grandchildren and my friends, the people I work with.

I do have certain people whom I want to work with. The kind of people I want to work with won't cast me on the basis of my hotness in the songs.

I feel like I've earned respect with how I go about my business, how I carry myself.

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.

Our organisation and culture is based on professionalism and values. I think my children reflect both.

It's gratifying to work for somebody who doesn't measure accomplishment by the temporary state of public-opinion polls.

I do care about success and all of those things. But I don't care enough to do movies just for that reason.

I never compromised my integrity by playing a character. I didn't tweet anybody something crazy. I was just myself, kept winning and stayed ready. I didn't sell my soul.

I believe that being honest to oneself and one's work is all that matters.

I have certain values. I know where I come from. I am a hard worker. I'm conscious of my luck.

It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.

If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say "I have done my best," then you are a success.

If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.

I want to be someone who is respected and not just in terms of my music. I want to be respected in terms of the way that I treat people... Music is my creative outlet in terms of expressing what is important to me; what has importance, what has a value. And I wanna be respected for that.

Never be associated with someone you can't be proud of, whether you work for him or he works for you