"I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work."

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"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."

Greta Scacchi, Italian Actress

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"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."

David O. Russell, American Director

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"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow."

Don Herold, American Writer

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"The world is sick of big IT things that don't work."

Tony Scott, British Director

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"I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work."

Emilio Estevez, American Actor

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"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

Charles de Gaulle, French Leader

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"I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them."

Sherwood Anderson, American Writer

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"I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work."

Kurt Russell, American Actor

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"There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work."

Gerald Finzi, British Composer

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"The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans."

John F. Kerry, American Politician

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"It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging."

Act,

"It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner."

Sense,

"I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be "up"."

Feelings, Feeling, Saying

"You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair."

Time, First, Trying

"Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs."

Music, Work, Time, Drinking

"I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black."

Actor,

"I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance."

Dance, Dancing, Parents, Talk

"They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high."

People,

"I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months."

Life, Movies, Work, Months

"I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done."

Time,