"If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work."
"I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me."
"The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now."
"Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education."
"But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!"
"I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms."
"It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music."
"I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent."
"Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character."
"The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole."
"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future."
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
"You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family."
"Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life."
"Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else."
"Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with."
"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."
"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
"Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date."
"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
"The harder I work, the luckier I get."
"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."
"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
"There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune."
"There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long."