All Quotes

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.
‐‐ Alexa Ray Joel

I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.
‐‐ Nick Offerman

I worked a lot on my ball-handling and outside shooting during the off season.
‐‐ Reggie Lewis

I worked a lot with Nick Knight and John Galliano when John was at Dior. He also made my wedding dress. He'll always hold a special place; I have most of my memorable, iconic moments in fashion with him.
‐‐ Liberty Ross

I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.
‐‐ Nancy Kerrigan

I worked as a carpenter for a few years. I began writing. I wrote a book about my time in Africa - that came out in 1988 - called 'The Village of Waiting.'
‐‐ George Packer

I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
‐‐ Flavor Flav

I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.
‐‐ Hans Frank

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.
‐‐ Robert Preston

I worked as a production assistant on a couple of films, and finally, I got a job at an animation studio as an editor. After that, work begat work. I got into directing music videos and commercials.
‐‐ Thomas Schlamme

I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone.
‐‐ Christine Pelosi

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.
‐‐ Jennie Garth

I worked as a singing, dancing busgirl in high school.
‐‐ Rutina Wesley

I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
‐‐ Feisal Abdul Rauf

I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
‐‐ Kate McKinnon

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.
‐‐ Sarah West

I worked as a waiter when I was 15 and got a chance to appreciate good, simple food. There's nothing better than a boiled egg with toast.
‐‐ Ewan McGregor

I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.
‐‐ Margaret Stohl

I worked as an actor for many years. Then I segued to some non-fiction writing.
‐‐ Cameron Dokey

I worked as an interior designer. I worked as a furniture salesman. I worked as a financial adviser. I worked as a painter and decorator - that wasn't for very long. I was a baker for about four-and-a-half years.
‐‐ Anton du Beke

I worked as President of House of Waris for a year and a half, and Waris is one of my favorite people. He is not only a talented designer but also a warm and genuine person and a pleasure to work with.
‐‐ Aslaug Magnusdottir

I worked at a Books-a-Million in Louisville for several years.
‐‐ Julie Kagawa

I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.
‐‐ Derek Theler

I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.
‐‐ Paul Pierce

I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only Spanish-speaking. My rule was if someone came into the office needing something - I worked in HR at the time - they had to bring a Spanish word to teach me. That was the deal.
‐‐ Rae Carson

I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

I worked at a local country club that I never belonged to. I did random tasks in the pro shop and supposed to be in charge of the register, but that didn't go so well. They quickly realized I was better with people, not computers.
‐‐ Shelley Hennig

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
‐‐ Barry Levinson

I worked at a McDonald's inside a Walmart. It wasn't even a real McDonald's.
‐‐ Riki Lindhome

I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fired because a sorority had rented out a theater to watch 'Titanic,' and they were being really rude to me while they were waiting for the movie. So as I tore their tickets, I told them the end of the movie.
‐‐ Bill Hader

I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.
‐‐ Bonnie Hunt

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

I worked at a place that followed a system where the quarterback was taught to take the sack rather than force the throw. That's kind of an old-school theory, but it has existed in this game.
‐‐ Mike McCarthy

I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.
‐‐ Missy Peregrym

I worked at ABCNews.com at a time when nobody knew what 'dot com' was.
‐‐ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.
‐‐ Marilyn Hacker

I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.
‐‐ Amy Poehler

I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these plays with the old people. I did 'The Wizard of Oz;' it was adapted. There was a guy there who played the harmonica, so we had an overture, and The Wizard was 96.
‐‐ Tony Danza

I worked at Barney's selling clothes to lonely, rich white women. Every time I would look down on myself - hating my job, hating my life - I would think, 'It's a character study. Study these people, and you'll have your SNL audition ready in, like, five minutes.'
‐‐ Brandon Uranowitz

I worked at CBS in the late '90s, and I remember sitting in meetings with both advertisers and digerati, and everyone was saying, 'Network TV is dead.'
‐‐ Ross Levinsohn

I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion.
‐‐ Bill Nye

I worked at Ikea as a customer service rep for two years and loved it.
‐‐ Amber Riley

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.
‐‐ Dave Eggers

I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night.
‐‐ Rod Taylor

I worked at Military Media, an advertising agency for military-base newspapers. Don't ask, I won't tell.
‐‐ Judy Gold

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
‐‐ H. G. Bissinger

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.
‐‐ Tabitha Soren

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.
‐‐ Dave Eggers

I worked at Sears as a salesperson when I was in college. Makes me nicer to folks to have to stand all day and be nice to picky people.
‐‐ Sharon Draper

I worked at Sears in the Woodfield Mall as a gift wrapper. I'm actually a great gift wrapper, and the customers were so nice to me. I was only 16, and eventually Sears put me in customer service because I was so friendly.
‐‐ Sherri Shepherd