Christoph Waltz Quotes

'ER' was an all-consuming universe, but I don't have a single regret. It gave me some of the greatest friendships I have and afforded me one of the rarest commodities in an actor's life, which is the financial security to pick and choose jobs for factors besides the paycheck.

My mom's not working, my dad doesn't want to stop working because he likes to be engrossed, so everybody is happy.

I don't want to take anything that's coming in for the sake of work. I want to choose carefully, as I have done since leaving 'EastEnders.'

Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed money.

I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20's making $10,000 a year.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

I'm lucky I get to work a lot.

I'd tell any coach not to move for money... Stay at your job if you're really happy.

My life may be a pretty crazy life at times, but it's a very privileged one - being able to earn a good living doing what you love. Not many people have such an opportunity.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.

Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.