Work & Career: New Job Quotes

"I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization"

Randy Moss, Athlete

"I am looking forward to being part of the E! team. This unique opportunity allows my company to take the next step in providing multimedia content!"

Ryan Seacrest, Entertainer

"I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that!"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was"

Pete Rozelle, Celebrity

"It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it"

Ben McKenzie, Actor

"The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club"

Richard Gough

"Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground"

Claudio Hummes

"It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people"

Richard Fleeshman, Actor

"I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle"

Judy Davis, Actress

"One thing led to another, and I didn't have to take tickets any more because I now worked for Mr. Rogers. He said, if I was going to take care of his horses than I'd better learn how to ride. He was very kind to me"

Glenn Ford, Actor

"I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven"

Gregory Harrison, Actor

"I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and it's called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

"So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years"

Michael Shanks, Actor

"I expect my next job to be outside government"

John Engler, Politician

"After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals"

David Minge, Politician

"So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor"

Desmond Dekker, Musician

"I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen"

Henry Laurens, Politician

"I did manage to secure a feature film for 2005, though, which I'm really chuffed about"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar"

Bobby McFerrin, Musician

"I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - Thank God I did"

Charlie Daniels, Musician

"Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books"

Jackie Collins, Author

"I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton"

Jack Adams, Athlete

"It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory"

Douglass North, Economist

"When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television, it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday"

Richard Lester, Director

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