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"I like to work fast."

Jerry Orbach, American Actor

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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"Speaking about work isn't working."

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"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

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"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

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"It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem."

Actor, Actors, Drinking, Fun

"All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from."

"I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A."

Actor, Actors, Choice

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"Big feature films are another world."

"I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do."

Money, Seasons, Theater, Want

"I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature."

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