Abhishek Bachchan Quotes

Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

I'm a real workaholic.

I would definitely describe myself as a workaholic.

It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.

I'm the true definition of a workaholic.

I've done 21 films in eight years, and I've said 'No' more times than I've done films.

You've got to want it. I can give you a role. I can't give you a career.

I want to work and continue to work - that's all I've ever done.

I'm the type of person where I'll take on anything because I like to work so much.

I'm lucky because I have never been pigeonholed and the roles have kept on coming.

I do a lot of things; I guess I'm a bit of a workaholic.

I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was.

I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

After 'The Hobbit,' I have no idea if things will change. I suspect if I still want to act I will have to put in the hard yards, not rest on my laurels. A lot of it is right place, right time, but I enjoy the challenge, constantly refining my craft, not taking it too seriously but never taking it for granted.

I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

I had been asked to start going out for roles here and there throughout my career, but I know that acting is a hard thing; it takes a lot of work, and I was traveling. I didn't have the time to really focus on it, so I really waited for the right project to come along.

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

I'll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work.