Wes Anderson Quotes

I've had great times in Utah, but regardless of where I'm playing, whether it's there or somewhere else, I'm going to stay professional.

I just try to come in every single day and be professional and work as hard as I can. I feel like you can't replace that.

Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.

It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

Work your ass off. Don't be an asshole.

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.

On the set, I'm a businessman.

Work only can keep even kings respectable.

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort

On set, I like to be treated just like a normal adult actor. We all put as much time and effort into our craft as adults, and maybe even more because we have school to do and a lot of things to figure out.

I don't want to sound like too much of a drama queen! But I'm not going to tell you, 'Oh, it's just so much fun.' It's work [working on film].

There's no sauce for play like work.

Every day is a work day, and I have to work my ass off just as much as any other guy, doing whatever job they're doing. I believe in commitment and hard work, and hopefully, after that, success comes.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

You'll never see me in any of the tabloids because I've made a conscious effort to stay out of that. I'm not interested in fame. I'm interested in hard work and letting my work speak for what I do. I've been in high-profile shows but you don't see stories on me because I don't go out and court them.

It is a direction not a destination.

If your vision doesn't cost you something, it's a daydream.

If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.

If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question.

If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.

But we've got to work. We can't just live on reputations at all - by any means.

It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.

While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.