"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."
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"The work of art is a scream of freedom."
"As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it."
"Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don't give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people."
"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."
"I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two."
"We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it."
"I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials."
"The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream."
"The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say."
"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."
"I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions."
"People who work in an environment where doing their best is recognized have a better chance of feeling good about their work."
"The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him."
"If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose."
"I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful."
"Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach."
"I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues."
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
"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."