Victoria Abril Quotes

I want my daughter to grow up with some kind of ambition. I want her to work and to have that independence.

When it comes down to it, I just want to work.

Everything in our lives revolves around our jobs, as much as we hate to say it. Where we live at, where our kids go to school, what we eat, what lifestyle we live, depends on the income we bring in and being able to provide for your family, and that's your employment.

I don't like not working.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

I want to work and be happy.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

Work is life. Work is opportunity.

I'm really excited that I'm able to work again.

I'm very much of the opinion that to work is better than not to work.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

I've never had a job. I've never needed to.

My husband and I work for a living.

I'll do something that brings me a check.

This work thing really has a specific purpose for me, which is to be an independent human being who doesn't rely on a guy or a family to be able to support myself. It's not about showing somebody that I'm successful. It's about having a wider breadth of option.

Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.

The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.

The very, very first thing that I wanted was to make a living - be independent and have a job. It might have come later, that kind of reaction to the boringness of fashion.

I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.

I have six jobs.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

It's always good to be working.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.