Job Quotes
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I get so antsy. When you're working, you're like, 'Oh my God, I'm so tired.' And then a hiatus starts, and you're off for three days, and you don't know what to do with yourself. You're never gonna have another job in your life, and you suck at acting. Your world comes tumbling down pretty quickly.
Chris Zylka
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What better job is there for a 17-year-old girl than being in a pop group?
Susan Ann Sulley The Human League
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I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.
David O. Russell
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About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
Bill Dedman
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When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.
John Baldessari
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Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.
Jack Welch
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My job is never boring. It's always new, exciting, and challenging, and I get a rush every time I go to work. I'm the luckiest person on the planet to be able to do what I love for a living.
Jewel Staite
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I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.
Marcus du Sautoy
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I didn't think he had good legs. He told me in the fourth quarter he was going to get hot, that he felt like he was getting in his rhythm, and he hit in a few in the fourth quarter. But, he was really bothered by Bell. He did a great job on him.
Phil Jackson
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My job is to take the pictures, communicate a message, to bring those images to the greater public through whatever publication I'm working for. My job is really to be a messenger, and that's what I've been doing.
Lynsey Addario
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I've been invited to appear on Letterman, but they wanted me to talk about a funny videotape of Congress. 'Bring us your outtakes!' That's not our job.
Brian Lamb
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The worst thing for a kid is to move around and switch schools, but as an actor, you go from job to job, meeting strangers and becoming very close right away. I've become adept at that.
John Cho
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I had a soap opera, and my next job was working with Kyle McLachlan on The Invisible Man.
Elisabeth Rohm
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I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.
John McCain
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I come from a working-class background, and I thought I had to be studying something that would get me a job.
Lynn Coady
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Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.
Martin Freeman
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We're going to have to work our way through that, ... It's going to be a big topic of discussion. We've got Chris here with a short work week, so we've got to do a real good job of evaluating that.
Joe Gibbs
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I think art comes out of meaningful experiences, and it's hard to make art when your meaningful experience is getting into your electric car and driving from your fancy house in the Hills to your fancy job in the Valley.
Aisha Tyler
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I can't worry about the consequences of what I do; that's not my job.
Peter Landesman
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I was one of the first women partners at my law firm, the first woman in my Minnesota prosecutor job, and the first woman elected from my state to the Senate. So advice from women who had done similar things was important for me.
Amy Klobuchar
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The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.
Darrell Issa
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I am very, very sorry for the lives lost in Iraq. I think it was a very noble job that your army and your people did in Iraq.
Jalal Talabani
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There is a degree of role-playing in modeling, for sure, and you're also in a high-profile job - there are lots of similarities for sure. But when I'm acting, I've got to try and be present, and I've got to be emotionally committed to a character, both physically and intellectually.
Lily Cole
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My job is to be a problem-solver.
Elizabeth Esty