Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.
— Tommy Chong
I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one.
— Tomie dePaola
I just want to work and have the freedom to put my voice out there, and I want to interact with my fans and my followers.
— Tomi Lahren
In terms of people who want to be writers, I wish more people knew how much work it was.
— Tomi Adeyemi
The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.
— Tom Wolfe
All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.
— Tom Wilkinson
I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.
— Tom Welling
It's always just nice to see your hard work paying off.
— Tom Walker
It's funny going to America because you're starting again. You've just won a Brit Award, but nobody will care. You have to prove yourself, but it's good to do that stuff. You might be big in Britain, but you still have to work at it everywhere else.
I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.
— Tom Verlaine
Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.
— Tom Udall
When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.
— Tom T. Hall
All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see film work as a continuation of writing for theatre. It is more of an interruption of the writing process.
— Tom Stoppard
The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
I was in business for 30 years, and my experience is that the best way to operate is to work fairly and closely with partners over a long period of time.
— Tom Steyer
I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.
— Tom Sizemore
Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.
— Tommy Caldwell
At 21, right out of college, I had two producers, about my age, who had never produced a show before, and they wanted me to write and produce an hour-long show before I turned 22. Which is a whole lot of work for someone who's just an 'airhead.'
Having done what I've done at 24 years old, I'm not the kind of person who likes to be out of work.
I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.
— Tomas Transtromer
The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them; you can't do any film work on the side.
— Tom Wlaschiha
I really don't feel it's necessary, as an actor, to make people feel uncomfortable, just because you need to be in a certain headspace. So, I do take myself away and do my own work and hunker down.
— Tom Weston-Jones
The idea of a perfect vacation is not working or not having to work and having no appointments.
Each song is a little snippet of my life - and I got to work with Rudimental!
If you think of what food is, it's the energy we use to do our daily work. I want people to know about the USDA. This is a very important department. It's not fully appreciated as such.
— Tom Vilsack
Most of my work had been in theater, and I was jumping not just into television but 'L.A. Law,' which had all these megastars in it.
— Tom Verica
I do not have a 10-point plan or a formula for reversing our accelerating slide into tyranny. But any fool can see what doesn't work and what has no chance of success.
— Tom Tancredo
I've definitely been obsessed with a couple of girls. They didn't work out.
— Tom Sturridge
I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.
If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.
My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
Auditioning is a completely terrifying beast. It's not your work that matters, it's if you can sell yourself in that room.
— Tom Stevens
'Argo' is a work of art.
I'd rather work than not.
— Tommy Bolin
The hard left labels anyone who challenges it 'divisive.' The leftists live in a world where everyone is free to look different but must think the same. I don't play their game. I threaten them and their narrative. That's why they slap the 'divisive' label and attempt to dismiss me. It's not going to work - not on me.
You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it.
I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.
You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could.
I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.
— Tom Wesselmann
My career was one of just taking it step by step. I didn't know how I was gonna fare on the professional circuit when I qualified. I didn't know whether I was gonna make a dime. I didn't know anything but this one thing: I had some dreams, and I was gonna work harder than anybody out here to ply my trade.
— Tom Watson
If you want to make it in America, you've got to work for it. And I kind of like that.
Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family.
The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.
I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.
If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.
I don't draw on my inner life in my work.
You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
I believe that trying to deal with Donald Trump is like trying to play three-card monte in Central Park: it's not going to work out.
I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.
— Tom Smothers
