Quotes about "Work & Career"

Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like 'Saturday Night Live' forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model. ”

Any great, long career has at least one flameout in it. ”

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away. ”

No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs. ”

Good fighters, they are so professional and quick, you can't see what's happening. It's very important: the fight is like a dialogue. Everybody has a line and an answer. ”

It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them. ”

It's my job to manipulate feelings. ”

I've done a pretty good job of curating a Twitter feed that doesn't make me hate the world. ”

It's much harder to get a job if nobody wants you around. ”

I think the absolute worst job I ever had - not because it was a terrible job, just because I was just so bad at it - was when I worked at a scenic factory in Chicago. ”