Lynda Barry Quotes

I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

I've been very successful at selling my things, but I've also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years.

You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Without pressure, I'm not going to wake up every day to go work, or do extra shooting, or lifting.

When it's time to go to work, it's time to go to work.

A lot of people just look at acting as a quick fix - they don't have a work ethic. This is a job; it's not all margaritas on the beach.

My dad, he worked rebar, an ironworker. Watching my pops get up every single morning, going into work, working hard - I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself every day.

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

I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.

I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.

I get up at the same time every morning.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.

Here's the thing about me: I have a job to do and I do it.

It's not all about talent. It's about dependability, consistency, and being able to improve. If you work hard and you're coachable, and you understand what you need to do, you can improve.

No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.

I've got a job to do.

Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.