- 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 Aug 01, 2026
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 15 I auditioned for 42nd Street in Australia. Dein Perry was in that show. I actually got the job but I couldn't do it because I was only 15. Legally I needed to have another 15-year-old to cover consecutive nights.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want development. Not everyone knows what it means. Same as jobs. Not everyone knows what a job is, but people want jobs.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Afterlife With Archie' - they're doing a great job.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I got into Juilliard, I was working at a Target distribution warehouse. It didn't make anything, it just shipped things, and my job was just to stand there and look at the security codes on the back of trucks and see if they would lock, and check them in.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in school! Stay in school and get a nice job working in an office!
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wrestling is not only my job, it's my life, so when I wasn't able to wrestle, I didn't know what to do with myself.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020