Job Quotes

I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and the Beast' oil paintings. So it's been an ongoing wonderful job.

~ Paige O'hara

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

~ Bill Hicks

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

~ Donald Glover

I always find it funny when I watch actors talking about, 'I chose to do this part.' A lot of times it's 'you're lucky to get the job.' We're like, 'Thank you so much.'

~ Lucy Punch

My job is to bring the tickle. I know what's funny.

~ Leslie Jones

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

~ Seth Rogen

It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

~ Rami Malek

It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usually don't like female comedians, but your material is great!' It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?

~ Chelsea Peretti

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

~ Ralph Fiennes

Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

~ Sam Worthington

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

~ Robert Rauschenberg

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

~ Bono

To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

~ Henry Moore

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

~ Malcolm Turnbull

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

~ Malcolm Turnbull

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

~ Benazir Bhutto

I chose not to go into politics and policy. Those policies are my husband's job.

~ Melania Trump

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

~ Jimmy Fallon

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

~ Thomas P. O'neill

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

~ William Randolph

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

~ Elizabeth Bibesco

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

~ Stephanie Tubbs Jones

The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.

~ Kelly Clarkson

There are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. I've loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would love to continue modeling, and there isn't really any job for me. It's being marginalized - that's the sad part.

~ Isabella Rossellini

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

~ Carroll O'connor

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

~ Tom Glazer

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

~ John F. Kerry

We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.

~ Robert Mueller

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

~ Tim O'reilly

Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.

~ Jesse Ventura

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.

~ Gene Luen Yang

The core concept of Samasource is essentially that technology helps us unlock human talent wherever it may happen to reside. That we should no longer be victims of the birth lottery. That no one should be stuck in a poor place where they don't have a job simply because of an accident of birth.

~ Leila Janah

I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature. For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.

~ Meg Whitman

If someone is trying to skip the struggle - which is the creative job - our machines today, the technology that we have, can help the person, but it is only momentary. On the other hand, if you are creative, you have the skill, and you are hardworking, technology can only make you superior.

~ Arijit Singh

Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.

~ Marc Benioff

My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology.

~ Honor Harger

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

~ Angela Kinsey

Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

~ Barton Gellman

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

~ Hilary Rosen