Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Gervais

Got a proper job at 28. Gave it up to try comedy at 38. Decided to get fit and healthy at 48. It's never too late. But do it now

Ricky Gervais

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

Ricky Gervais

There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.

Temuera Morrison

Sometimes I think, 'Oh, I wish I just had a nice job where you're getting a salary.' Just sometimes.

One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.'

Trey Burke

My job is just to make the right play, read the defense, shoot if it's there, and make plays for my team.

Thomas Steinbeck

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

Tom Noonan

To me, acting doesn't really feel that different, one job to another.

Brian Weiss

That putt had more breaks than a government job.

Brian Dennehy

From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend.

Brian d'Arcy James

Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.

Brian Chesky

Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this, you start feeling like you are getting old, even when you are relatively young. We are all natural entrepreneurs, and being manacled to a desk job is not for us.

Brian Chesky

Somebody asked me 'what's the job of a CEO', and there's a number of things a CEO does. What you mostly do is articulate the vision, develop the strategy, and you gotta hire people to fit the culture. If you do those three things, you basically have a company. And that company will hopefully be successful, if you have the right vision, the right strategy, and good people.

Brian Chesky

A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation

Brian Eno

Being an artist is a job for life.

Brian Eno

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

Brent Musburger

You have to take your job seriously, but you can't take yourself seriously.

Brent Spiner

As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!

Brent Spiner

Any job you can go to and have a laugh everyday has got to be a good job.

Bret McKenzie

I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.

Brady Quinn

It's ridiculous to think that you get to play a game you love for a job you get paid for.

Brady Corbet

Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesnt? But famous-famous? I just dont care about it. And if you genuinely dont give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.

Branch Rickey

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.

Boris Becker

The suit-and-tie job is very nice, but it's not really who I am in my heart.

Booker T. Washington

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

Bobby Scott

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

Bobby Ray Inman

If the intelligence we send forward support the views that the administration has, it is welcome and we are told what a great job it is. And if the intelligence that gos forward don't support the views of the policymakers, it is instantly condemned.

Bob Edwards

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

Bob Dole

You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.

Bob Dylan

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Bob Dylan

The government’s not going to create jobs. It doesn’t have to. People have to create jobs...

Bob Dylan

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Bob Dylan

If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.