Laurence Olivier Quotes

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

And although I like to relax and have fun, my passion is my work.

You've got to love what you do. You've got to like doing it, because it is a lot of your life.

I've always been the kind of person that if I take on anything professionally it means commitment to me, so you take it on if you can commit to it and if you know you can accommodate and give your best to it and that's what you do, and I have always done that throughout my life - before marriage, after marriage, before motherhood, after motherhood.

I always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team. When he was well into his eighties a friend found him in his office on Sunday, and asked him why, at his age, he was working on a Sunday. His response, 'It’s only work if there’s someplace else you’d rather be.'

I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

I am always on the job.

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

I've never cancelled any public appearance, simply because that's what my life is; it's doing my work, and I never want to stop doing my work unless it becomes impossible for me to do it.

I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

I don't take vacations.

Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing.

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

I would endeavour to deserve my life, Sire.