Work Quotes

The daily grind, the creative struggle, and why what we do matters more than we think.

22485 quotes

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"I gave everything to the pictures. The pictures gave me nothing in return."
Max von Mayerling
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"She was my greatest creation and my deepest failure."
Max von Mayerling
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"I have directed a thousand lives on screen; my own, I lost."
Max von Mayerling
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"The pictures were my children; I loved them far more than people."
Max von Mayerling
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"Why work when you can simply be captivating?"
Lina Lamont
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"The most sensible thing to do is to be an escort."
Holly Golightly
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"Work should fulfill you, not just define you."
Paul Varjak
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"Work should be an expression of who you are."
Paul Varjak
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"Work that serves others gives life meaning and purpose."
Princess Anne
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"In the movie business, you're only as good as your last screenplay."
Joe Gillis
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"The typewriter is your best friend and your worst enemy."
Joe Gillis
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"Work is what you do to survive. Passion is what you do to live."
Joe Gillis
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"In my day, we knew how to make pictures."
Norma Desmond
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"My life is my work, and my work is my life."
Norma Desmond
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"Work without passion is slavery."
Norma Desmond
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"Hawrd wowrk pewws off in the end, awlways."
Elmer Fudd
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Elmer Fudd
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"Work without purpose is merely drudgery."
Jedediah Leland
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"Work is what we do to fill the silence inside ourselves."
Jedediah Leland
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"A man's greatest work is the life he leaves unfinished."
Jedediah Leland
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"Are you ready to go back to work with me?"
Norma Desmond
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"A studio writer can't write. That's the secret of the whole thing."
Joe Gillis
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"Writing scripts is like selling yourself piece by piece."
Joe Gillis
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"The studio system grinds you down until you're nothing."
Joe Gillis
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"To serve with dignity is to find meaning in obscurity."
Max von Mayerling
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"To be useful is to be alive. Everything else is mere existence."
Max von Mayerling
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"I want to be a useful member of society."
Charles Foster Kane
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"Hard work is the price of success."
Charles Foster Kane
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"Work without passion is merely labor."
Charles Foster Kane
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"Work is what we do to escape the truth of ourselves."
Jedediah Leland