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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.
Maybe one day I will work in Italy. If they want me.
My humbleness and the work I do each day speak for me.
I would wear pajamas to work every day if it were up to me.
I must work the works of Him Who sent me while it is yet day.
I work everyday, but every day is a holiday for me because I enjoy my work.
There have been a lot of times when work and parenting conflicted for me. Every day.
For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.
I work hard. And whoever they put in front of me, I guess that's who gets beat up that day.
I work every day 100 percent, but I assure you that I'll quit if my players don't follow me.
When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.
My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day.
Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.
When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.
I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
I don't work more than 8 hours a day. At times, people get angry with me because of this, but I can't work more than that.
If you ask me what I think about going to work every day, it's 9/11 and preventing another 9/11. There were too many people I knew.
An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.
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.
I have stopped making career plans; they never seem to work out for me. So, I'm going with the flow, enjoying each day of being an actor.
I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson's disease, and it sometimes takes my words away from me.
I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.
Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.
I can tell you I can work on four or five hours of sleep a night and cat nap all day, and I can go for 8 or 10 days on the road, and it doesn't seem to affect me.
I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day.
I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the noise tires me. I can't speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.
Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
I skate six days a week, three sessions a day, and I go to the gym three times a week. I lift weights, do some ab work and whatever my trainer tells me to do. I take Saturdays off.
I'm aware that I'm now a role model for younger players. I bring more maturity to practice - it's more of a work environment to me, where I consciously work to get better each day.
I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.
I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.
I want to work every day. I don't work every day. When I finish something, people ask me, 'You gonna chill for a little while?' I'm like, 'No. I chill on Sunday afternoon.' I need to be engaged.
The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.
I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.
I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.
I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'
The basic work schedule for me is whenever I'm not doing anything more important, like taking care of my kids or something. So, it's most of the day, five days a week, most evenings and sometimes on the weekends.
If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.
I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day's schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.
I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.
For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.
Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.
My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can stay up all night and still come in the next day and write a song, and nothing will stop me from doing it. I expect the same from everyone else.
For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.
So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.
