- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a normal job, so I don't consider retiring.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a bike as a kid, and when I worked in Manhattan - I had a 10-speed - I rode from downtown to 68th and Madison for my day job. I knew about fighting traffic, but nothing about racing.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's a good job when you get to have fans come up to you and thank you for writing your songs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote 'Grand Illusion,' I was making it up as we went along. I wrote this stuff and tried to do the best job I could.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.
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- Nov 07, 2020