Job Quotes

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.

The number of vacations me and my husband have canceled... if you really want a job, book a non-refundable vacation. But obviously we're blessed too.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.

The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.

I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

I didn't have any great job prospects.

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.

Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.