Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen DeGeneres

I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn't ringing. There wasn't one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn't work in Hollywood again.

Franco Modigliani

A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.

Ian Fleming

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

Hugh Laurie

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

Hugh Laurie

To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.

Hugh Laurie

Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.

Hugh Jackman

The Wolverine was fired from his job as a cashier in a newsagents after just six weeks because his boss said, "he talks too much to customers". He can talk to me all day.

Hugh Jackman

I truly believe that the job of an actor and the drive of an actor is simulating the internal journey in life which is to get deeper and deeper into our understanding of who we are.

Homer

If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.

If I don't have the required paperwork to do my job, I can't do it. It's not my job to obtain the paperwork.

If I'd stayed up there I'd be out of a job now,

If he was trying to set up an alibi, he did a lousy job at it.

I feel like people are going to look and say, 'Can I give up my job for $35,000?

If I have to get two jobs, I'll have to.

If I have to do it, I'll do it. It was my job tonight.

Jose Cruz

If I lose my job, it's worth it. It's worth losing several jobs to get my papers.

Lee Majors

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

Andy Reid

I did a better job on that. I need to get to that earlier.

John Calipari

I did a better job last year than I did this year.

Mike Wallace

I can't think of a better job for a reporter. It's been a joy.

Nia Vardalos

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

I don't think any of the firefighters keep this job just for the pay. They take pride in being firefighters.

I am not leaving NASCAR and I have not been offered a job by DEI,

Christopher McQuarrie

I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.

Ramon Hernandez

I am not here to take his job. Whatever role they want me to do, I'll do it.

Rex Walters

I don't want to get the job because the players want me. I want to get the job because I am the most qualified candidate.

He's got a cornerback mentality, and now he has to understand to play like a safety. I know that he wants to get into the action, but I always preach to him, 'This is your job right now.' ... He's adjusting.

He's missed a lot of time, but he's comfortable. He did a nice job tonight.

I don't like losing a shift ? that is still 1,100 jobs ? but we feel that everyone left will have a job when this is all done.

Robert Merrill

I don't make a lot of noise on the field. I'm aggressive, and I try to get the job done.

Julianne Moore

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

Clay Aiken

I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.