Job Quotes

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

I could never have gotten back into my career without the undying support of my husband, who works full time at a stressful job! We decided that we were going to do this as total partners and it is a 50/50 deal with us.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do this nasty job.' Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.

I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.

President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation.

I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.'

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

When we get the private sector going through job creation and growth, then the governments at all level have revenues to do the things that they need to do. And that's why it's so important to get this economy moving, to get jobs created. We can't keep going on with this anemic recovery.

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.

It's a unique situation to have, but again they say sometimes talent doesn't win. It has to be brought together right. That's the coaching's job. That's what we're doing.

The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.

It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.

Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove's play book, but there's no doubt that what the Bush people did in 2004 was impressive. They had neighbors talking to neighbors. They did a remarkable job increasing Republican turnout in states like Ohio and Florida.

My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again.