I have no problem having any actor from anywhere play a role. I'm excited for any actor that gets a job, I truly am. Even if it's a role that I'm up for and I don't get it, I never begrudge any actor having it work out for them.
— William Fichtner
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
— William Feather
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
— William Ernest Hocking
I like to think that my works flow like music. That may be one reason I work in large groups versus one picture of one thing; it's the flow of the whole series that counts.
— William Eggleston
I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two.
Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.
— William Devane
It's hard to store natural gas. And it does require big storage tanks. So it doesn't work very well on passenger cars.
— William Clay Ford, Jr.
You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.
— William Cavendish
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
— William Boyd
Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
— William Bernbach
There are many factors that affect crime rates. But we recognize that the main reason crime has decreased has always been - and always will be - the dangerous and stressful work done by state and local law enforcement officers day in and day out.
— William Barr
As we work to secure our data and communications from hackers, we must recognize that our citizens face a far broader array of threats.
A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.
— William Baldwin
What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.
— William Albert Allard
When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character.
— Willem Dafoe
Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.
— Willard Wigan
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
— William Ellery Channing
Everything must work in concert. Composition is important, but so are many other things, from content to the way colours work with or against each other.
At Union Securities, I threw myself into my work with the discipline and commitment that I had always demonstrated in employment and only rarely displayed in school. Years later, I would come to appreciate, abstractly, the importance of productive activity to the mind and soul of both an individual and a nation.
— William E. Simon
While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance.
— William Dampier
I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.
But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.
In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.
All first responders do noble work, and all of them deserve our respect and our appreciation.
To all my colleagues at the Department of Justice, let me say that it is a privilege to serve with you. I will do all I can to support your work in advancing the cause of justice.
While the FBI carries out investigative work, the responsibility for supervising, directing and ultimately determining the resolution of investigations is solely the province of the Justice Department's prosecutors.
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.
I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.
I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.
My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.
An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.
Work appealed to me; school did not. I was a disinterested, bored student.
When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.
— William Collins
Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.
What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge, not winning this prize or getting that review. It's that the work is there, and you can walk into many bookshops throughout the world and buy it.
Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.
Law enforcement officers do heroic work every day in this country. And at the Department of Justice, we honor every single officer who wears the badge.
The U.S. Attorneys who comprise the Attorney General's Advisory Committee play a critical role in carrying out the Department of Justice's important work, including its efforts to reduce violent crime, combat the opioid crisis, protect the most vulnerable, and enforce the rule of law.
In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.
What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.
That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.
Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.
People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.
