Long-term Work Quotes

I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

When you're doing a movie, you're in and out of there in three months. If you hated the experience, it's all good because you can take the paycheck and leave. But, on a television show, you have to love your character and you have to love the experience because you could be there for awhile, fingers crossed.

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.

I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.

I've been very fortunate in animation - when I get on a project, people tend to keep me, so I have long stays of work rather than bouncing around.

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

I've been working a long time, and mostly European films.

I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be possible, we depend on society. It's one thing to overturn a government or block the streets. But it's a different matter altogether to create and build a better society, one that needs organization, discipline and long-term work. Let's not confuse the two of them. I want to make it clear: I feel sympathetic with that youthful energy, but I think it's not going anywhere if it doesn't become more mature.

It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.

What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.

I have worked extraordinarily hard for decades to ensure the success of our family business for all of the Middleton family.

It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.

I worked in the pit for more than 20 years and never had a serious injury.

I love my job every day. So whether it's for four years or for two weeks, it's still... And when you're working on a set, it feels like a family straight away.