Jobs Quotes - Page 7

• I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Character

  4 Copy quote

• Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.

  Andrew Scott

  Simple, People, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.

  Aaliyah

  Work, Heart, Soul

  29 Copy quote

• It isnt always hard work that does the job.

  Paul Guilfoyle

  Hard Work, Doe, Hard

  4 Copy quote

• My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland USA, which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

  John Barrowman

  Kids, Firsts, Performing

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, tv.avclub.com. July 17, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.

  Paul O'Grady

  Cutting, Eight, Sound

  "'Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me'". Interview with Maggie Brown, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As an actor ... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.

  Cliff Curtis

  Order, Actors, Forget

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In today's world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.

  Beth Behrs

  People, Waiting, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jaguar — For men who'd like hand-jobs from beautiful women they hardly know.

  Dudley Moore

  Beautiful, Men, Hands

  11 Copy quote

• It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can.

  Mike Nichols

  Technique, Stories, Way

  4 Copy quote

• At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

  Tamsin Egerton

  America, Firsts, Exciting

  4 Copy quote

• I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Crazy, Careers, Long

  4 Copy quote

• I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.

  Carol Burnett

  Losing, Never Regret, Felt

  "Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character". American Masters Interview, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2008.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.

  Richard Gere

  Father, Nice, Snow

  8 Copy quote

• My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

  Ty Pennington

  Art, School, Pay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don’t care about the rules. In fact, if I don’t break the rules at least ten times in every song, then I’m not doing my job properly. Emotion is much more important than making mistakes, so be prepared to look like a chump. If you become too guarded and too processed, the music loses its spontaneity and gut feeling

  Jeff Beck

  Song, Mistake, Feelings

  25 Copy quote

• Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Inspire, Want, Missions

  20 Copy quote

• Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.

  Ruby Dee

  Feet, Shelter, Knees

  22 Copy quote

• The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.

  Beth Broderick

  Stars, Book, Math

  4 Copy quote

• My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

  James Denton

  Real, Air, Years

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, Men’s Edge Magazine, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.

  James Denton

  Perfect, Three, Four

  4 Copy quote

• There are people, radio talk show hosts, those kind of people, it's their job to only have one opinion, they can't tell you about their feelings. They have to go with what pays their bills.

  Danny Bonaduce

  People, Feelings, Radio

  "Danny Bonaduce on Anti-War Jane Fonda". "The Big Story With John Gibson", www.foxnews.com. January 29, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.

  David Alan Grier

  Acting, Wonder, Enough

  4 Copy quote

• Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

  Gwen Ifill

  President, Management, Courses

  4 Copy quote

• Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.

  Jason Lee

  Thinking, People, Dating

  4 Copy quote