Work & Career: New Job Quotes

"I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!' So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row"

Pauley Perrette, Actress

"I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything"

Renny Harlin, Director

"The pro-growth policies of Congress have helped created new jobs in the region and across the country"

Tim Murphy, Politician

"Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you"

Tom Cole, Politician

"After guest appearances, I got the offer to do the show as the successor of Arthur Schwartz. It's so much fun"

Rocco DiSpirito, Celebrity

"In the summer of 1965, I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman"

George Andrew Olah, Scientist

"I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute"

George Andrew Olah, Scientist

"At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work"

Sharon Olds, Poet

"She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city"

Piper Perabo, Actress

"I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world, there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy"

Lee Child, Writer

"I chose Tennessee because I thought they'd give me an opportunity to play"

Jamal Lewis, Athlete

"Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since"

Dan DeCarlo, Cartoonist

"I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business"

David Crane

"Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week"

Andrea Mitchell, Journalist

"On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid"

Christopher Durang, Playwright

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

Thomas Dooley, Athlete

"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted"

George Stephen, Businessman

"It was this feeling the whole time like I shouldn't be here among all these stars and professionals. I was trying to keep my distance because I wanted to watch everyone. But they want you to feel at home and be part of it, and it became normal very quickly"

Evanna Lynch, Actress

"I must have made a good impression, because a club official to us into his office, and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional"

Harold Larwood, Athlete

"Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth"

Edward G. Rendell, Politician

"I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck"

Ernest Borgnine, Actor

"Always wanted to be an actress or work with animals, and now I get to do both"

Julia Barr, Actress

"All of a sudden, I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed"

Al Kaline, Athlete

"I'm 40, and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy"

Teri Hatcher, Actress

"All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from"

Jerry Orbach, Actor

"I am ready to work, I am ready for this job, and I am ready for this challenge"

Stuart Pearce, Coach

"The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor"

Johnny Weissmuller, Actor

"This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it"

Paul Giamatti, Actor

"The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research"

Renny Harlin, Director

"Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices, and enacting new efficiency benchmarks"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid"

Rob Corddry, Comedian

"New York came after me aggressively and that's what sealed the deal"

Johnny Damon, Athlete

"I left with nothing, and needing to begin a new career"

John Surtees, Athlete

"I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue"

Jeffrey Jones, Actor

"I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click"

Ja Rule, Musician

"The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me"

Steven Hatfill, Scientist

"I've done the gay, over-the-top guy. I want to jump into another show where I wear pants for the majority of the time"

Jai Rodriguez, Actor

"It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world"

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Writer

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