Andre Gide Quote

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

Patrick Swayze

• People

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.

Gwyneth Paltrow

• Travel

People always tell me, 'Don't work so much', but I can't help it. I feel like all the things I've done are important to get to this adult stage and now I'm getting all these adult offers, so it's working.

Kirsten Dunst

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

Mel Gibson

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

Russell Crowe

• Praise

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

Alanis Morissette

• Breathing

Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.

Pedro Almodovar

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

Peter Weir

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

Jeremy Irons

• Desire

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

Akira Kurosawa

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.

Richard Serra

You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything.

John Malkovich

What brings people down is the same thing over and over.

Meg Ryan

• People

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Epictetus

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

• People

It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.

Nastassja Kinski

I see what keeps people young: work!

Ted Turner

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.

Liv Ullmann

I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing.

Charlize Theron

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

Jeremy Irons