Quality of Work Quotes

The way we do anything is the way we do everything.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

When I came to Mumbai eight years ago, I had a realistic approach. I was sure that nobody will give me work... And I was also very choosy about wheat kind of work I did.

TNA has been extraordinary to me, nothing but professional.

When the standard of success becomes merely acting - when any result is regarded as progress and important, when inspiration is seen as a reward rather than a prerequisite - we propel ourselves ahead.

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

I'm a slow worker; I'm, I think, a steady worker.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.

Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

In any profession, whether it's teachers or doctors or lawyers, the more we say we're not going to evaluate those people on the merits, I think that's when the profession goes into decline.

Money is not the driving force behind my decisions to accept or reject a project.

I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.

Sacks shouldn't be the only thing that determines if you had a good year.

I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

I'd love to have written a film and it to be regarded as good. I'd just like to be doing things that are good, really. I think that's all you can aim for. I find it odd when actors say they just want to do films or plays or television. A lot of films aren't very good; a lot of television isn't very good; a lot of plays aren't very good.

Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.

I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was the best ever,' and I've gone downhill since to 'The new book is the best ever,' so to whom to I listen? So I write for myself and hope other people like it.

But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.

As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

As far as I'm concerned, any work you get is because people have heard other work you've done.

There are certain filmmakers who look at the kind of work you have been a part of or if you come with a baggage of bad films.