- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Job Quotes
What a job costs, and what it takes.
Quotes about "job" here focus on careers in the arts — a warning that a comfortable day job can quietly end a musician's ambitions, and advice to take any first job just to get into the industry. For work-focused reflection, see Doing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you lose your job because there has been an influx of labour from another country, that is a legitimate cause for concern.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have my dream job! As a young person training as an actor, walking on the WB studio lot is a dream in itself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very easy to keep putting off having a family if you enjoy your job, but you just have to get on with life.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my job, whenever I delivered a presentation I would rehearse several times before the actual event. In sport, it is important to be equally prepared about my opponents.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I create a character, I do it with the directors, and I take their notes and try to have my notes meet in a common ground. I don't create characters myself, and I don't really think that's my job. I'm not a prep person at all - plus, I'm just a lazy procrastinator.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is the job of a comedian: To take unpleasant subject matter and forcibly, with his hands, wring the funny out of it.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not an understatement to say that I owe everything as an actor to 'Merlin.' It was pretty much my first job, and I didn't know what I was doing for many years on it. It wasn't until the third and fourth series - the fourth series especially - that I really found my feet with the character, and as an actress.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn't know any actors. I never thought it was a viable job. It wasn't until I was on 'The Tudors' that I realised it was a possibility.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020