Making money isn’t hard in itself,’ he complained. ‘What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.

Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, / Though I must slave for livelihood – / Think you that I would change with him? / You bet I would!

It really is something … that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn’t it be possible for us just to banish these men from our lives, and escape their carping...

Procrastination threatens critics’ livelihood.

I’m trying to be sympathetic to a group of professionals and something they do as part of their livelihood.

If you’re a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that’s dangerously close to arrogance.