- 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
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that?
- Tea
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is a place where the freedom to be who you are shouldn't be a barrier to your ability to get a job and provide for your family.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were privy to the ups and downs of a writer's life.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I do a job, I do it 100 percent. I am so grateful for the chance to do what I do.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will do its job immediately, before an audience has been properly conditioned.
- Nov 07, 2020