Job Quotes
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In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like 'Freaks and Geeks,' my first job, which was a complete fluke.
Lizzy Caplan
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You made a big mistake by letting me come, because now I'm going after your job.
Muhammad Ali
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Class warfare has never created a job.
John Fleming
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As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.
Sienna Miller
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Nobody has ever been happy in a job they obtained by first handing in a resumé.
Douglas Coupland
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I think women in general, we just soldier on. Whatever it takes, you just have to do it. It's your job. Whatever it is.
Marcia Clark
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It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.
Grace Slick Starship
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Oh, I like going down the rabbit hole. You know, that's kind of my job. When you play Macbeth, you gotta dive down that one. The trick is figuring out how to do it with love and a sense of humor so you can pop back out again. But, kind of the actor's job is to go down the rabbit hole.
Ethan Hawke
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I wanna do the very best job I can to fulfill the trust and faith that people have in me.
Hillary Clinton
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As a quarterback, I always feel like it's my job to be that steady, calm presence in there.
Alex Smith
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I'm happy about working; I'm happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It's the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.
Kevin Hart
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Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
Billy Connolly
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We did not do a good enough job of taking care of the people who were losing their careers and retraining them into the new economy.
John Hickenlooper
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If you can do everything in your job without struggling, not only will you get stuck in your slot but you’ll never flex your mind muscles, and pretty soon they’ll start to atrophy.
Brian Wong
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Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.
Ava DuVernay
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That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky.
Colin Quinn
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I don’t wanna have any other kind of job. I can’t work among people. I may as well try & make a career out of this. All my life my dream has been to be a big rock star - just may as well abuse it while you can.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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I was just worried about my nose-job.
Kathy Wakile
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I've done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for 'Let Me Explain,' I toured all over the world. These movies I have coming out - 'Ride Along,' 'Grudge Match,' 'About Last Night,' 'Think Like a Man Too' - are putting me in a position to become universal on an even bigger scale.
Kevin Hart
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I want to leave New Zealand in better shape than I found it. I know the job of prime minister is not forever and I'm going to do the best I can every day to make that difference.
John Key
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I thought that I would have a huge literary novel coming out when I was, like, 29. I quit my banking job, and I was halfway through my second novel - and I will never publish it, because it's very mediocre.
Philipp Meyer
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You cannot study other planets without referring to Earth and without applying the techniques and the insights of Earth science. And you cannot really do a good job understanding the Earth without the insights from planetary exploration.
David Grinspoon
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The nice thing about my job is that it allows me to look deeper into issues and then tell stories with that information.
Diego Luna
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Poverty Jet Set: A group of people given to chronic travelling at the expense of long-term job stability or a permenant residence. Tend to have doomed and extremely expensive phone call relationships with people named Serge or Ilyana. Tend to discuss frequent flyer programs at parties.
Douglas Coupland