William Petersen Quotes

I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.

When a job, whether it is generally regarded as important or not, falls to my lot to do....it assumes importance immediately as far as I am concerned. I cannot rest until it is completed…whatever service I have succeeded in rendering to the nation is due, mainly, to this attitude and outlook of mine with regard to work

All of the off-field stuff, I can promise you, it doesn't even register with me.

With all due respect, I have a job to do, and that is to try and make 'Endeavour' the best it can be.

My focus has always been very much on what we're doing at Red Bull. We can't control what others do. It's not our business.

I'm a firm believer when I'm doing my job to not want anybody around.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.

I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously.

I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.

I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.

I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.

We would completely delegitimise what we are doing if we allow politics to interfere with our work.

We're just human beings. In the end, you do your job. I do my job in the best way I can.

My job isn't to win popularity contests.

I need to have a great deal of control and the ability to share my control with my collaborators and grant them the freedom and the quality of work I think these people deserve. If I don't have those elements, I walk away.

I believe investigative agencies should be run in an autonomous manner, and there shouldn't be any interference from the government's side.

Regardless of what happened off the field, that doesn't change what I do on the field and my performance.

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

I'm a professional, and I have to always do my job.

I don't really care what anyone else is doing. I'm only focussed on my work.

I've got my head down, working hard, while others are chasing other frivolous things.

I just come in and work and do what is required of me to do, and do it professionally.