Work is making a living out of being bored.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

Actor’s life is very long.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‚How is the president?‘

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

I’ve got nothing to say most of the time.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn’t have to write for my living.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

I will never retire unless I have to.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

It’s very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.