A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.
As an actor, it's exhausting being someone else. It's not physically demanding, but it's mentally demanding, if you do the job the way you should.
A whole generation of people that didn't know me from 'SNL' recognize me from 'Weeds' now. People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!'
The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.
My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.
For me, I felt bad for people asking the questions, cause you know their boss sent them out saying, 'Get me something on Mission Impossible. ' And you ask the question, and it's just a polite, 'I'm not going to tell you. ' Then, every so often, they'd go, 'Well, can't you just tell us a little bit?' I have to say, 'You know what guys, I'm under contract and I'm not going to tell you anything. ' So you keep asking the questions and I'm just going to keep smiling. And it's hard, cause I don't want to seem rude, but it's part of my job just like it's part of their job to keep a secret.
Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later.
I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant.
I never wanted to get a job of musician. That was kind of my thing. I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.
Being a showrunner is tough, but it is incredibly rewarding and it is, without a doubt, the best job I've ever had.
It's God's job to run the world. Sometimes we accomplish more by doing less.
It's not so much what the job gives you, it's what you give to the job.
Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.
Ultimately your job as an actor is to perform however you're being asked to perform and there's many different procedures as an actor that you're going to run into that you should be prepared for and be ready to go to work and do the best you can and give the director the best thing you can to hopefully give him things on that day that could be shot preserved and out into a canned, then when they go into the editing room that's where a movie's made.
I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
A silent lover is one who doesn't know his job.
I know I often get a job because of how I look. I hope that I keep the job because of how I act.
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
My newspaper job … is my identity.
The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development