Job Quotes

• One of the dirty little secrets of my job is that I don't do ANY food or cooking shows.

  

  Hank Stuever
  • Job
  • Secrets
  • Cooking shows

• To play a cop's wife - there's so much in that world, the wives or partners of anyone who is a first responder - it's not an easy job. It's not an easy way to live, to say goodbye to someone in the morning and not know what's going to happen throughout the day.

  

  Amy Carlson
  • World
  • Live
  • Wife

• Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Argue

• Becoming a mother made me better understand how blessed I am to do this job.

  

  Bianca Balti
  • Job
  • Mother
  • Blessed

• Grub Street Writers is the reason I've stayed in Boston. I started teaching for Grub back in 1997, when founder Eve Bridburg, a Boston University M.A. alumna, as I am, kindly gave me my first job out of grad school.

  

  Jenna Blum
  • School
  • Job

• My job is to allow myself to be free. I go up on stage and I have to find the inner wild rock-star guy and let him out. That's what I get paid to do, and when I think about it, it's pretty mind-blowing. I don't have a quota I have to meet, I don't have a deadline - well, I have deadlines but they're loose - and I can be myself at the highest level.

  

  Pierre Bouvier Simple Plan
  • Job
  • Deadlines
  • Quota

• In 1993, 89 of the 'Fortune' top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don't want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Job
  • Personality
  • Philosophy

• I had a period without acting work, and I took a job as a cocktail server. In 'Stick Fly,' my character has to carry a tray, and I knew how to do it because of the job.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Work
  • Character
  • Period

• I'm not very good at time off. I'm happier when I'm working. It's something to do with not knowing what the next job is, so you appreciate it while it's there. I thrive on it, actually. But now I do it to please myself.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

  

  Emanuel Ax
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Experience

• Everyone knows that a federal job is a lifetime job, and for many in Congress, it seems they have a lifetime job, too.

  

  John McAfee
  • Job

• My team and I tried cashing checks at check-cashing places and paying bills by money order. It's incredibly inconvenient and time-consuming - it's practically a part-time job just to manage and move your money.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • Time
  • Money
  • Team

• As an actor it's your job to empathise with your character regardless of whether they have a different sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, or anything.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Different
  • Character
  • Spiritual

• And there is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my life, and feel as good as I can about myself, and to lead as full and eventful a life as I can, so that it doesn’t ever feel like I’m just waiting around for some guy to ask me out. And most importantly, it’s good for us all to remember that we don’t need to scheme and plot and beg to get someone to ask us out. We’re fantastic.

  

  Liz Tuccillo
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• 'I’ll survive,' Floyd said. 'I’m a private detective. If I don’t get clouted on the head at least once a week, I’m not doing my job properly.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Job

• When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Job
  • Fireman
  • Burning Building

• I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.

  

  James Brown
  • God
  • Men
  • Thinking

• I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.

  

  Jason Isaacs
  • Job
  • Beginning

• Although the odds are you're not gonna get the acting job you go out for, it's easier to successfully audition than it is to sit down for a few months and write a movie that's going to actually sell.

  

  Anders Holm
  • Job
  • Movie

• Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I'm young and I already have one job. I'm just focused on my career.

  

  Chanel Iman
  • Time
  • Men
  • Career

• If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does lead to us being slightly more dour and staid and predictable than would otherwise be the case, which I personally find quite frustrating - because if you don't laugh occasionally in my job, you cry most of the time.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Time
  • Job

• I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Great
  • Proud

• I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Government

• Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, I'm just fully invested in everything that person's saying.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • Good
  • Job

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