Julie Delpy Quotes

Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

If I'm working, then I'm working, and my focus is on that.

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

When it comes to work, I am focused. I work like a maniac.

Now, when it's time to get down to business, I get down to business.

When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people.

You have to focus on your job, and if you focus on your job, you block everything out.

I've been so in the zone, you don't know where you are or where you're at.

I try to be as focused as I can so I can do my job to the best of my abilities.

I've always striven to ensure that I work on one film at a time.

I'm someone who wants to do well at their job. I am completely in what I am doing.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.

I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

Everybody shut up. Let us work.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.