All Quotes

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.
‐‐ Michelle Obama

My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.
‐‐ Vik Muniz

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.
‐‐ Ty Pennington

My first job in L.A. was actually playing an employee in a Best Buy commercial, but I played a bad employee at another store. I also worked at a commercial casting company running cameras and session directing.
‐‐ Timothy Simons

My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.
‐‐ James Iha

My first job in television was on 'My So-Called Life.'
‐‐ Jason Katims

My first job in TV was hosting this young teen magazine show, and all these high school teenagers showed up from all over Sacramento, California, and they chose four of us to host the show, two boys and two girls. And of the two girls, I was kind of the perky smart one and the other girl was the pretty one.
‐‐ Lisa Ling

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
‐‐ Venus Williams

My first job is to entertain, but if, while you're enjoying, you start to question something you never thought about before or empathize with, relate to, love someone you only thought of as 'other' once upon a time - how awesome is that.
‐‐ Jenji Kohan

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.
‐‐ Joshua Ferris

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
‐‐ Sara Zarr

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.
‐‐ Joan Cusack

My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.
‐‐ Douglas Trumbull

My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.
‐‐ Ira Glass

My first job on the screen was 'Sea Patrol,' and that was quite intense, but I guess my first big break was 'SLiDE.'
‐‐ Brenton Thwaites

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.
‐‐ Lincoln Child

My first job paid well for a young attorney. I was making over $50,000, which was more than either of my parents had ever made. I thought I was rich.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

My first job was a commercial for Ball Park Fun Franks.
‐‐ Hunter Parrish

My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.
‐‐ Ashley Madekwe

My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.
‐‐ Hayley Atwell

My first job was a McDonald's commercial. It made me want to wake up at 4 A.M. to do something I loved. I haven't been the same since.
‐‐ Nadine Velazquez

My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.
‐‐ Jason Dolley

My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.
‐‐ Kenneth Langone

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

My first job was as a sandwich artist at Subway.
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso

My first job was as a waitress, and I waitressed for a long, long time. I was a very bad waitress. I didn't care if people had ketchup or if they were allergic to fish. It really didn't bother me either way. I didn't care. I was bad, but it was a good way to make money. And it's a fun job if you are working with fun people.
‐‐ Cheryl Hines

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?
‐‐ Jodi Picoult

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.
‐‐ Shelley Berman

My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all the magic was gone from it. It just turned into a place I hated and I've never been there since.
‐‐ Danny McBride

My first job was cleaning dog kennels. It was especially, ah, aromatic during those hot, humid Louisiana summers, but it prepared me for Hollywood.
‐‐ Robert Crais

My first job was cleaning sheep pens.
‐‐ Brian Sandoval

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.
‐‐ Janice Dickinson

My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.
‐‐ Kim Edwards

My first job was in pantomime; I was a chorus girl in 'Dick Whittington' at 16. I got the part by ringing the director daily to see if anyone had dropped out, and it paid off eventually, when I was cast as a rat!
‐‐ Celia Imrie

My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.
‐‐ Rachel Roy

My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.
‐‐ Chloe Sevigny

My first job was, like, McDonald's.
‐‐ Swae Lee

My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to Broadway and a friend of mine, Lauren Bacall, was in Hollywood filming with Humphrey Bogart. She told one of her producers I was great in my play, and he saw it and cast me in 'The Strange Love of Martha Ivers'.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas

My first job was playing 'Nurse 2' in a film by Ben Elton called 'Maybe Baby,' and the first actors I worked with professionally were Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson. I was totally star-struck. I got that job on my final day of drama school, so it was a nice bridge into the professional world.
‐‐ Shelley Conn

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
‐‐ Gregory Maguire

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now.
‐‐ Mona Simpson

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.
‐‐ Douglas Preston

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.
‐‐ Elizabeth Strout

My first job was when I was eight. I did this opera, which was a Robert Wilson/Philip Glass opera, called 'White Raven.' That was a very confusing and trippy creation tale, and I was a kid who brought up the sun and rotated the earth. It was very empowering.
‐‐ Ezra Miller

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
‐‐ Ed Asner

My first job was with 'Dawson's Creek' where everybody looked good and they spoke better than you. It was kind of a wish fulfillment, fantasy-type show.
‐‐ Mike White

My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place.
‐‐ Steve Aoki

My first job was working for my dad. He was a used-car dealer, and I used to wash the cars down, clean them out, and so on. I would do stuff for him pretty much every day. It was quite a good job, to be honest.
‐‐ Tyson Fury