Quotes About Motivation

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.

So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

I definitely am the kind of person that fluctuates up and down. I work really hard for a certain project and then I'm like, 'Oh, I'm done.'

I just can't seem to make myself care about what I look like when I am working out.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

Do your homework, study the craft, believe in yourself, and out-work everyone.

For me, the motivation really was to work with Al Pacino. To me, that seemed like an incredible opportunity, just a learning opportunity because I thought so highly of him.

You work for whatever you get in life.

If no ones doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

The lack of work destroys people.

I don't have to be a "gazillionaire;" what's important to me is to just being able to work.

To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.

I work whenever I'm let.

I got a fantastic person to work me out and get me into really good shape.

The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.

And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

I work out with a trainer, Anna Kaiser, three days a week.