Jobs Quotes

To be on set every day with a whole bunch of people that know their job and my job a lot better than I do and I'm supposed to tell them what to do, that's very uncomfortable and awkward.

I've been working for a long time and I've just really been allowed to work, with very little of the baggage and the pressures that can come with my job.

I like my job. That's become very clear to me. I know how to pretend to do things that I otherwise didn't know how to do.

It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing.

There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.

Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, "Well, I have to do that."

When I go in and vote, I vote for the person I think will get the job done.I don't vote right-left.

Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.

More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.

I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.

Of course, marketing and publicity does an amazing job of prepping everybody for that, but there's nothing like sitting there and experiencing the movie.

I got my equity card, found my agent, and then I got a part on 'Gilmore Girls.' That turned into a job that kept giving - they wrote more for me.

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That's my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions.

I assume that people get in trouble when they do a bait and switch, when they say something to get the job and then they just don't do that thing.

I love being an actor and a job is a job, and I'm always happy to have a job.

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.

I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other day we would break down six legs of veal.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

If we had those 40 million children that were [aborted] over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.

I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.

You get in there, you get the job done and you get the hell out.

The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships.

My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.

My job isn't to strike guys out, it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.

I haven't gotten fired from many jobs, but you finish a job and nine times out of ten you're just unemployed and you don't know where the next one is. And that does get old. It's stressful.

Temptation is impossible for me to resist Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call it, it's fine with me.

I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age, struggling on a book around a full-time job and family.

Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.

An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.

I hired top-notch people, trusted them to do their jobs, and then came to grips with the fact that I wouldn't be coaching as much.

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do.

The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.

One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do a lot of research and a lot of thinking and taking a lot of notes before I turn it in.

Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job.

If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.

My mom would leave her job, and there would be throngs of people screaming and banging on our car. I come from a very private family, but I was born into a public family.

I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.

A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.

I feel very, very fortunate to have the success that I've had. I want to keep working and keep moving forward. Acting is my dream job. I love it so much.

When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore. I just wanted acting to be my job.

At certain point, you realize it's easy to play music for the rest of your life: just don't sell your guitar. Maybe you get a day job, but as long as you have a guitar, you can play.

I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.

Any job is a job. If you have to be doing something, then you're probably not enjoying it.

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.