Work & Career: New Job Quotes

"I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing"

Scott Speedman, Actor

"I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history"

Paula Abdul, Musician

"Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93"

Mary Hart, Entertainer

"I enjoyed the promotion with K9 on my introduction day"

Lalla Ward, Actor

"I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week"

Gene Kelly, Actor

"It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"I am just happy to be part of the Nike family"

LeBron James, Athlete

"I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one day and he said he had auditions for someone my age. He asked if I would be interested in doing some"

Alexis Bledel, Actress

"Thus, during the winter of 2003, I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer"

Janine Turner, Actress

"It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back"

Joan Van Ark, Actress

"The more I thought of the McClure offer the less I thought of it. So I told him last night I was satisfied where I was, and that the $75 he offered me was no inducement"

Richard H. Davis, Writer

"And then after a while he got me a job at the video store next door. I used to lock up the store and go next door and hang out all the time and watch movies and stuff"

Jason Mewes, Actor

"I didn't go to college. I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away. I was very, very lucky"

Jeremy London, Actor

"I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II"

Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor

"Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development"

Rodrigo Rato, Politician

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

Lee Majors, Actor

"The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department"

Paul D. Boyer, Scientist

"It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role, I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do"

Nicholas Lea, Actor

"I was more excited than scared at the opportunity to work in an English movie"

Aishwarya Rai, Actress

"I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management, they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time"

Justin Guarini, Musician

"The meat and poultry industries are outstanding industries, and it's going to be a very natural fit for me"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on"

James P. Hoffa, Businessman

"Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox"

Tom Selleck, Actor

"We also need people like social workers, volunteers, the Christian Industrial League, drug treatment programs, to make sure you are getting them a job. That's what you have to do. Otherwise, we just keep stepping around these things"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job"

Robert Quine, Musician

"I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could"

Gil Kane, Artist

"Up to that point, I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job, I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in"

Gil Gerard, Actor

"They'll totally hire me if I say I got fired from my job on the Hill because of a sex scandal"

Jessica Cutler, Celebrity

"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"'m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job!"

Jensen Ackles, Actor

"I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'Deja vu all over again.'"

Bobby Hull, Athlete

"Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin-off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that"

James Marsters, Actor

"I think I can try the film world out for a while"

Kristanna Loken, Actress

"When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one"

John Stossel, Journalist

"That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera"

Kent McCord, Actor

"I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police"

John Pomfret

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