Serious work Quotes

The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the serious stuff.'

I've been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

I'm an actor, not a clown.

I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're just a reaction to what I see. I don't leave this apartment in the morning and say to myself 'Today I'm going to be funny and tomorrow I'm going to be sad.'

'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.

It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.

When I first started getting into acting, I was doing improv in acting class, and I had done a serious monologue and everyone was cracking up laughing and I went to the drama teacher and said I don't want to be the class clown anymore, I want to do serious work, too, and they loved that, and so I started mixing in drama.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Let's take the work seriously, and not ourselves seriously.

We all had a lot of fun making the film ["Airplane" ], but there weren't a lot of outtakes or cracking up because we all were focused on doing our jobs in a professional manner.

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey [in the True Detective].They're fun guys [with Woody Harrelson]. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.

Most of the stuff I've done is quite serious, so I'm usually studious.

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.

I never intended to only do dark, serious things.