Jobs Quotes

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

I think I just wanted to work when I finally came to Hollywood. That's what it was. I wanted to get a job, and then I wanted to get the second one.

I did stand-up for a long time and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve.

If I come to work every day and do my job, work as hard as I can, be a great teammate, the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.

I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a café and I did bike delivery and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.

I think I sent out some résumés for marketing jobs, and they all came back in the mail because I didn't have enough postage.

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere.

Let's not forget, there are three languages in Canada - English, French, and there's the language of jobs.

Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak.

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.

People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.

For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.

If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.

The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many actors serve themselves.

A prosecutor's job is to file the evidence wherever it takes us.

The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.

I was unhappy with the jobs I did after law. I got into the diplomatic service. There again I had really little to do.

I'm not only a fan of Apple products, I have stock in the company. I think Steve Jobs has started one of the greatest corporations in the world.

I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job is to pull yourself into a subject that you know nothing about.

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.

If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.

Hardworking men and women deserve not only job security, but also a paycheck when they need to take time off to care for a loved one.

We must do everything we can to help our service members and veterans transition into civilian life once they return home, and that means preparing them for the tough job market.

I admired Eugene McCarthy’s courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the Washington Post, I remained an admirer.

It is well known that you can only manage what you measure, and as this is the job of professional accountants, it means they have huge influence on companies' governance.

When you're given a song, it's my job to record the lyrics, story and emotion, and make everyone who is listening to the song believe that it was my words and experience.

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.

I don't know why anyone does the job without that pressure.

We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth.

What I would hope to do is painting, because I don't think I'm qualified for anything else. My last job would be babysitting, so I don't think Starbucks would even hire me.

Great seas," he said. "What do you want?" He held the candle up to her face. "Po, what do you want?" "She did a far better job than I would've done.

With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.

I want more job. I want to die entertaining.

I was probably 34 when I got my first on-camera acting job, and it was through a friend of mine, who was working as a writer on the show, and I've never been more frightened in my life.

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon.

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

Someone comes and drags you in front of the camera, and they're already saying, "Okay, we got it. Moving on." You get one or two takes. So it's a tough job.

That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.

One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.

I can't get a job, I can't get arrested.

I don't want to play a laptop live if I'm just going to sit there, so it's also a problem of working at my movie theater job long enough to get money to get better equipment.