Anna Friel Quotes

Everyone I've worked with on any film will say I'm the hardest worker.

If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.

Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse.

I love being in the States because there's an emphasis on work. People are enthusiastic. They put heart into things.

I don't know whether they will give me a project just because I am cooperative and behave nicely, but it really helps. I never demand for anything or never throw tantrums at work.

Your personality counts for a lot and how you are to work with.

Abhimanyu Singh is a great guy to work with. He's very hard working.

If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

When you're working, nobody's a star. We're all just actors trying to figure it out.

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

The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.

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

When you think something is cool already, it's okay to put in an honest day's work.

I like to work. I don't like to disrupt my equilibrium. I don't like to change my head. I'd rather be a third-rate actor. It's a job, and I'm dedicated in my way. I enjoy it. I'm serious about it. But if it doesn't come off, I'm not going to die.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.

I think the reason I've survived that long is because I've taken my work so seriously. Maybe sometimes too seriously, but it's always been important for me to do my best regardless of the film. I think the biggest compliment I get is when people on the street stop me and say they've liked the choices I've made.

Everyone who knows me thinks I'm a bit of a work Nazi.

You put all the other stuff aside and go out and do your job, and mine is to be the best I can be for my teammates.

I've had many skilful men and the likes of Peter Thompson, Ian St John, Kevin Keegan and Steve Heighway were the ones who caught the eye. But the best professional of the lot was Gerry Byrne. He wasn't flashy and he wouldn't score you goals. But he was hard and skilful and gave you everything he had. More than that he was totally honest. Which is the greatest quality of all. He was a true Liverpudlian who couldn't look his fellow Scousers in the face after a game unless he'd given everything he had for 90 minutes.

It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.

Not harder than it should be, no. We're about the business, we're about the work. It's all about the work, always. We have fun and laugh and there're days that are more intense than others, but we're there to make it better. He's always going to try and make it better, I'm always going to try and make it better. So you accept anything, you accept whatever it takes to get it up on the screen and make it worthy.

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

We have to do our jobs better, more tirelessly and stop whining about it.