Top 165 Good Work Quotes

Part of doing good work is caring deeply about it, believing in what you’re doing, and getting incredibly attached to the characters that you’re playing, the stories you’re telling, and the people you’re working with.

Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That’s the way we need to work, and that’s the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.

It’s impossible to feel the creative juices flowing if you’re always worried about the end result. I think really, really good work comes out of people being quite open, not stressed, really exploring, trying to be imaginative, without worrying too much about the end result.

It’s not my style to either wear minimum clothes, to strip, or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I just want to do good work instead of sporting such meaningless tags. Sex sells, but to a small extent, not always. And this is what filmmakers have to accept.

Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.

I just know that if your work is good, good work follow.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

You’re not going to do good work if you’re not choosing something because it inspires you.

But I want to do good work, after this series.

It’s a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

I always wanted to do good work, the best that I was able to, to really discover myself, getting better with each role, and find newer ways to do the same thing.

In real estate, if you’re hustling and maintaining a good work ethic, you’ll get deals.

It’s not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.

I’m only focusing on good work. I’m known to be a little choosy, and I’m proud of it.

When people talk about how parameters can generate really good work, there’s no better example than working within a genre in film. That’s like the ultimate parameter.

I really want to do good work. I really do. My priority isn’t stardom.

Awards are like a pat of appreciation from the jury and viewers. It is almost like them saying, ‘So, you have done well; we expect you to carry on doing good work.’

I became a victim of my own good work in ‘Buniyaad.’ It established my credentials as an actor but I became Babuji forever, the benevolent father figure with a perpetual smile, who has a discourse on sanskaar ready.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

My first movie was ‘Diner.’ My second movie was ‘Tender Mercies.’ I did really good work.

More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean ‘wrong’ in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.

Quite frankly, I didn’t become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

Yes, I want to do good work. But just because a movie is small, it doesn’t make it better. In fact, there are a lot of really horrible independent movies made.

I wanted to act and do good work with good people. I wanted to be a part of good content. That was my only ambition. So I made the most of the opportunities that came to me.

Ekta Kapoor believed that I would do good work and allowed me to explore. I had that support system.

I am a workaholic. I am very restless, and I am always looking for good work. I don’t act for the heck of it; I do it because I love it.

When I was young, I liked to be acknowledged in class by little gestures such as a small red star for doing something good. Now that I’m older, I still want to be acknowledged for good work.

The world is small, and the film industry is even smaller. So, if someone does something wrong, you really can’t hide it, and if it’s good work, it also can’t remain hidden.

My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.

I want to do good work, but having kids and a life outside of that is important, too. If you don’t have anybody around who loves you, then what’s it all for? You’re just lonely in the end.

The lack of available, good work inspires a lot of people to be self-creating.

I just want to do good work.

I’d like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.

I am proud to be a Next 20 ambassador for Kick It Out and take this role very seriously for an organisation that does such good work.

As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that’s something I cultivate.

Acting is one industry that is very difficult to plan for. I’d like to continue to do good work.

Actors love to do good work irrespective of country and borders.

I work for creative satisfaction. It’s my hunger for good work that motivates me to explore.

I go into any movie that’s historical fiction thinking, ‘OK, I’m here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it’s a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won’t even be bothered by the opinions. I’ll make my own mind up.’

I have a good work ethic.

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful – to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

It’s amazing, the quality of good work that happened in the fifties when a series would have to turn out 30-some episodes a season – it’s amazing that ‘I Love Lucy’ was as good as it was!

If you fail to make a mark, you might not get good work later. So, it is important for every actor to have a plan B to bank on. Here, nothing lasts forever. That’s why my husband pushes me to do different things in life.

The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

There is a great deal of reward when you do good work and people see how successful that work is and the happiness it brings to them.

I always wanted to do good work and play strong parts.

I don’t care what I do – act, stand-up, write, direct – it doesn’t matter as long as I’m being creative and it’s good work.

Vicky Kaushal is a shining example of what happens when you do good work consistently. Rajkummar Rao, Radhika Apte are other examples.

I got a lot of support from the entire industry, stars like Akshay Kumar. A. R. Rahman told me to keep doing the good work and not get bogged down by anything.

There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.

I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors.

There are instances where, in my mid to late 20s, I very often found myself going for roles that they didn’t want to cast me in, because I’d done good work, but in a producer’s eyes, I wasn’t high enough status. So I lost out.

As an actor, you think to yourself, ‘I want to do good work,’ but you also want the work that you do to make an impact in some way.

New York is fantastic, and I’ve done several films in Los Angeles which I really enjoyed, but I don’t think that America is the be-all and end-all. I’ll follow the good work wherever it may be.

I don’t want to work more. I want to do limited but good work.

Small businesses play a big role in Louisiana’s economy, but many that do good work face hurdles that are beyond their control.

I just know that making ‘Beast’ was an amazing experience. It was my first feature, it was the director’s first feature, and every day, you’re just trying to do good work and learn.

What’s important is to do good work and interesting roles.

When you’ve done good work, you can’t come back with something stupid.

What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone’s ringing a lot more and I’ve got nine lines so when it doesn’t ring, it’s very frustrating.

I think I’ve matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it’s not about the celebrity status that you receive because you’re doing the next hot movie. It’s about doing good work.

I’ll walk around the city, and people will come up to me and say, ‘Hi,’ or ‘Keep up the good work,’ or whatever, and I’ll stop and talk to them.

Unfortunately we live in a world where I think women aren’t actively encouraged or at least not empowered to make good work in every creative sphere, particularly in comedy.

There’s never a surefire good career move except doing good work.

It really feels special to know that ‘Irudhi Suttru’ has been selected to be screened at Tokyo Film Festival. I see this honor as an impetus to continue doing my good work.

Good work is such an incredible payoff. And I know that I’ll be working until the end, because good work excites me.

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.

Right now I’m doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it’s a lot of good work. It’s fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

I did a lot of good work with my trainer and the physio in Barbados, and they were tremendous help to me during my comeback period.

In 2014, Modi’s name was there in the minds of people due to the good work he had done in Gujarat as chief minister. He made Gujarat one of the most developed states in India.

All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers’ unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.

I love growing old and if I get good work playing women of my age and talk about their issues and lives, I am happiest doing that.

When I did ’21 Jump Street,’ I felt like I was a part of something great, but on a very large scale. Working with people that genuinely want to make good art or good work or a good film, that’s what keeps me going.

I’m getting some really good work. And because I’m delivering what they want, more good work is coming my way.

When I joined the music scene, a lot of big-ticket singers were not getting good work… It was a lean phase.

I have no interest in doing anything other than good work.

I realized that work doesn’t beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

I don’t have an exact picture of where I aim to see myself, but I want to do something which will be an example for everyone. If anyone is giving a reference for good work, then they should think of me.

I definitely am open to South Indian films. There is a lot of good work coming from these states and I would like to be a part in some of them.

Not much ever really comes of commissions, really. The last one that really came up with something truly concrete was the Warren Commission, and for all its good work, most Americans persist in believing that Oswald was working in tandem with the CIA, FBI, Lyndon Johnson, and the John Birch Society.

When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren’t as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.

There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They’re always looking not for the good things, the wonderful things the president and first lady are doing, they’re looking for an error or to criticize. And it’s not conducive to good work.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

I want good work.

I want to do good work. The first failure affected me. That is why I did ‘Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum.’

I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

I’m not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. There’s good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you’re trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

I do not need any rest. I enjoy my work, and at work, I rest. I rest with my good work.

Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She’s a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.

‘Saturday Night Live’ is a very particular beast. What it celebrates are individuals who can stand out. I did good work there, but going onstage and saying, ‘Hey! Hey! Look at me! Aren’t I funny?’ – that just wasn’t my instinct.

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It’s about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

You can be playing a line some way and the director wants you to change that, or you can disagree. But I always think that the creative conversation between director and actor is what leads to good work.

I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And I’m always afraid I didn’t get those 10 seconds.

Eggs give me protein after a good work out. The cheesier, the better!

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Football, that’s just athletics. But in the business world – doing everything – people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

Of course, any work you do as a sporting person, a football coach or any coach, if it is good work, you’ve got to have something – a championship – to show for it.

I want to be remembered for the good work that I’ve done, for the positive work, and as somebody who was innovative and who people enjoyed.

I’m ready to do good work in good films.

You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.

I am trying to pick roles that are interesting to me and are different so that I can continue to do good work.

I’m a very proud mother as Sanah has been getting lots of rave reviews. She has done good work and shown herself as a promising actress.

I am waiting for some good work to come my way – whether it’s TV or films… As long as it catches my interest, I will take it.

When you work on big commercial movies, of course there’s more money involved and you can still do some good work. But with an independent, you get films that are really close to the writers’ and directors’ heart. Somehow it becomes a little deeper. A little more meat and not as much flash.

What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can’t explain it.

I always wanted to do good work, but not in order to buy big houses and big cars. I just wanted to be ‘alright’, to have enough money to be able to live on, to go to the cinema when I wanted to, and buy the books I wanted to read.

I love to drown myself in work. I pray to God to keep me busy and let me do good work.

I don’t think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they’re religious, if they’re doing good work. But government can’t subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can’t.

I think that when you are struggling as an actor, you imagine that if things were to pan out, everything in your life would change, But really, it’s not so different. You’re still pursuing good work. You still panic that you’re doing it all wrong.

I think I am against stereotype. Generally, Asian guys are more quiet – they study and have a good work ethic. Generally, I have none of those things.

My characters are much more famous than I am, so I don’t crave attention; I just crave working and doing good work. Having a feeling of self-worth.

There’s only so much I can do to effect change – and really, the thing that I can do that’s most effective is to work and to do good work. That, I feel, is speaking out in its own way.

Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I was. Simon was like, keep up the good work and I’ll have nothing to worry about.

I want to do good work in the world.

I have done good work in television and wouldn’t want to mess it with a wrong move.

Me and Kyle O’Reilly have wrestled all around the world. We’ve done good work.

Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

I always want to do good work and enjoy doing it.

I want to do more good work. That’s very much my parents’ influence in me.

Yes, I have done a few things like always, worked immensely hard, always respected people, admired good work, and never let success blow my top off; probably this has worked in my favour.

In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we’re doing anonymously.

For me, this is a familiar image – people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

Instead of cribbing that good work is not coming my way, I look at the positive side where I see no pressure from my parents to work for the sake of it.

All you can do is do good work, and do the good work for the sake of doing the good work and your evolution as an artist. That’s what’s most important to me.

I have never fanned out at all, actually. I mean, there’s only a few people that I have fanned out about before: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, pretty much anyone from ‘Star Wars.’ But I don’t usually fan out at all, just because they’re all people just doing their jobs. It’s exciting because they do very good work!

I think TNA has been an excellent locker room. They have a good mentality, they have a good work ethic, and they try really hard. They’re obviously really passionate about wrestling, and there’s a huge amount of talent.

I suppose in the long run, it’s the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there’s enough room for all kinds of writing.

I definitely learned about having a good work ethic from my family. They showed me what it meant to go out and work for something and then how good it felt when you accomplished your goals.

We always want more, more, more. You see good work; you want it better. We push, push, push.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn’t feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

I try to keep in mind that it’s a long journey. It’s not a race. It’s about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that’s all I really want to do… and pay my bills.

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn’t an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

I’m not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

I think when you’re doing good work, you don’t necessarily need to be validated.

There’s a different kind of attitude when you come from Western New York. You work for everything you get, and nothing’s really handed to you… You realize good work turns to good things, and that’s the edge I always came up with.

I want to do good work in cinemas and on OTT.

Competitive feeling means you want do do good work. You can’t lie about wanting to be on top. There is no reason for me to be insecure at this time. I would be insecure if I was sitting at home doing nothing, but I am in films now, and that’s where I always wanted to be.

The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.

I really like doing good work and working with good people – that’s the thing that drives me.

I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.

My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all – that is not as important to me.

I believe stardom is a by-product of good work.

I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I’m way, way too old now, mate. That boat’s sailed.

I realized that work doesn’t beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.

I just want to do really good work.

You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.

I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here.

The number one thing I look for is personality. For me, the personality of someone makes them more and more attractive over time … and for those with bad personalities, less and less attractive. I look for honesty, intelligence, kindness, and a good work ethic, to name a few.

In the 23 years that I have been here in this industry, I have not once been in a position where somebody has propositioned me or I found myself in a place where they’re offering me good work in return for some favors.

There are so many people who are dependent on me. You know, setting expectations, and then feeling afraid. But I am a firm believer in the fact that good work has always been recognized.

As an actor, I am only excited about doing good work – be it in mainstream Hindi cinema, Hollywood, a French film, or a Marathi movie.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists.

We always want to live in an environment where there’s no artificial block to good work.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the ’70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.