Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Woods

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

James Wolk

Acting is great. It's so much fun. It's a job where you literally get to do something that's a great experience, and then you try a new experience, and you take things from all of it.

Jason Clarke

That's one of the challenges of acting. You can't expect that you're going to be successful, but you've got to put your heart and everything you have into it. Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work and you can see that in the work. That defines what type of actor you are. And what kind of people want to work with you. And whether you can do this job for a long, long time.

Jason Bateman

The longer you stay in the job that you do the more you learn about what those around you do. As an actor I've always nosed around apologetically about: "oh wouldn't it be interesting if I could do that?" I can't imagine not wanting to do this everyday.

Jason Bateman

Our job, as actors, is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing. If it's a situation where the character should look a little bit out of control or do something stupid, it's your job to act into that, in a believable way.

Jason Bateman

Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

Jason Bateman

What's frustrating as an actor, when you want to work hard, you can only work once that phone rings and then you can only work until the production wraps. Then you have to find another job.

Jared Fogle

I know how long it took me to lose my weight, and people have got to understand it?s not always easy. If all this can help one child, we are doing our job.

Janice Hahn

I oppose U.S. military intervention in Iraq. I believe that we should not send troops or engage in air strikes-our nation's military involvement needs to be over. The United States has already spent billions of dollars in Iraq while our nation has endured a crumbling infrastructure, cuts to our social programs, a lack of investment in job training and creation, and sadly, a failure to take care of our veterans. Let's focus our resources at home. Over 4000 men and women have sacrificed their lives for Iraq. That is enough.

Janet Street-Porter

Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.

Janice Dickinson

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.

Janet Yellen

In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.

Janet Yellen

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

Janet McTeer

But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.

Janet Napolitano

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

Janet Napolitano

You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.

Janet Frame

Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?

Janet Jackson

Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

Jane Siberry

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

We usually do a better job of free-throw shooting, but we didn't get it done (on Monday).

Tommy Wiseau

As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them.

Tom Seaver

My job isn't to strike guys out; it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.

Tom Sizemore

Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

If I would take a job with a professional league, I need to be ready.

Meryl Streep

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

Saul Alinsky

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

Ricky Gervais

Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.

Ricky Gervais

I don't do anything for the money.

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.'