Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

I just try to keep making good records, try to write songs the best way I can and take my job seriously. Like most people take their jobs.

I always appreciate hard work, and every actor has a different process. I appreciate focus.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

I'm a hard worker. I get my hands dirty.

I know that I am the hardest working man in America.

I was a hard worker.

It's bred in me that I only see real work as getting stuck in and getting your hands dirty.

I'm a worker. I'm a grinder.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably been found to be amongst the most plodding, hard-working, and intent men -- their chief characteristic apparently consisting simply in their power of laboring more intensely and effectively than others.

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

I always try to write the best I can.

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

People know I work hard.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro.

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

You'd just die if you put your head to the grindstone.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.