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Just like education, job is an integral part of human life. Without work you will rust, your potentials will go unrecognized, your talent will tarnish. To keep yourself happy and active, job is a must. Job not only helps one to realize one’s worth and boost self-esteem but also ensures a better life and better living. It doesn’t matter whether you are a barber, engineer or doctor, putting your skills at work and deriving satisfaction out of it is the best forms of human gratification . Here are the list of famous job quotes to make you laugh and to enlighten you.

Anne Heche

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

Fantasy
Anne Heche
Sam Claflin

There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.

Sam Claflin
Anna Faris

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

Anna Faris
Matt LeBlanc

I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know?

Matt LeBlanc
Prince William

No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.

Good Future Shoes
Prince William
Sandra Day O'Connor

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.

Good
Sandra Day O'Connor
Neil Gorsuch

Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.

Dreams
Neil Gorsuch
Jack Nicholson

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

Acting
Jack Nicholson
Kevin Costner

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

Kevin Costner

I'm very confident in my point of view. 'Cause I think that that's all you can really have. I'm never really going to know what anybody else is going through, so it's just kind of your job to be expressive with your point of view.

Donald Glover
Raul Julia

Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.

Business
Raul Julia
Kelsey Grammer

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

Kelsey Grammer
James Franco

My job is what I love. I don't need an escape from it.

Love
James Franco
Prince Harry

I've longed for kids since I was very, very young. And so... I'm waiting to find the right person, someone who's willing to take on the job.

Prince Harry

During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.

Discussion
Patrick Stewart
Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.

People
Elena Kagan
Robert Kardashian

I know O.J. better than anyone on the legal team. There are so many things I know about his personality. My job is really strategy and liaison between the lawyers and O.J.

Personality
Robert Kardashian
J. R. R. Tolkien

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried.

Time Excitement
Rob Schneider
Cary Grant

Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

Order
Cary Grant
Thomas Moore

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

Motivation Advice Profession Career
Thomas Moore
William Zabka

Strangely, when I was a kid, my first acting job, at 5 years old, was a performance of 'The Three Little Pigs.' They cast me as the Big Bad Wolf.

William Zabka
Christopher Nolan

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

Architecture
Christopher Nolan
Tom Ellis

What people like to comment on a lot is that I grew up in a religious family; my father is a pastor, and now I'm playing the devil. Thankfully, my family see the humorous side of the job.

Family People Devil
Tom Ellis
Cherry Jones

I think there's something about being absolutely at the height of intensity at almost every moment of one's job that makes it a lot easier if you don't have time to think much, just sort of barrel through the next crisis.

Time
Cherry Jones

Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label.

Milla Jovovich
Jeff Bezos

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

Experience
Jeff Bezos
Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Life Profession Office Opportunities
Theodore Roosevelt
Emmanuel Macron

We are implementing an in-depth reform on labor market, not to reduce rights for workers but to provide more visibility and more efficiency to investors and employers because it's the key for job creation.

Creativity Efficiency
Emmanuel Macron
Alan Turing

I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.

Mind
Alan Turing
Liam Hemsworth

I learn more with every job, and I'm very thankful for where I am.

Liam Hemsworth
Judy Davis

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
Joaquin Phoenix

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

Love
Joaquin Phoenix
Chris Hemsworth

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

Luck
Chris Hemsworth
Brittany Murphy

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.

Professionalism Truth Work
Brittany Murphy

You do certain things in your twenties that are just not appropriate in your thirties and certainly not appropriate in your forties. Eventually you even the scales, and it's time to move on and become an adult and start working hard again and going to sleep a little bit earlier. Fortunately, I got a job to facilitate that transition.

Sleep Time
Jason Bateman

It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

Funny
Rami Malek
Nicole Richie

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

Nicole Richie
Lord Mountbatten

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

Best Mind
Lord Mountbatten

I was fortunate enough to make it to where I want to be. There could be other kids as talented or more talented than me in whatever they want to be but don't have the resources to pursue their dream. Maybe they have to get a job instead to help their mom with the bills.

Jayson Tatum

I remember being told very early on, 'Just say what they want to hear in the audition, and we'll figure it out later on.' So there have been a few tricky moments. I once said I could ride, when the truth is I'm terrified of horses, but I got the job!

Truth
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Will Smith

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

Good Work
Will Smith
Katherine Ryan

Stand-up comedy is not a man's job. It's an alpha job: To be the only person in a room with a microphone who's allowed to talk.

Comedy
Katherine Ryan
Patrick Bamford

After football, ideally I want to take Gary Lineker's job, but we'll see about that. I'd love to do that, present 'Match of the Day.'

Love Football
Patrick Bamford

When I was a kid, probably 16 or 17, I got spotted by a model scout that wanted to represent me, and they sent me one modeling job, for Wall's ice cream. I did one job for them, and then a catwalk shoot for Kangol caps, and decided modeling was not for me.

Charlie Hunnam
Savannah Guthrie

I would never put my job before my family.

Family
Savannah Guthrie
Bill Murray

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

Bill Murray
Celine Dion

I have become a housewife and there is no better job.

Celine Dion
Avril Lavigne

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

Psychosis
Avril Lavigne
Jessica Chastain

Some people think I've had a nose job. I've never had anything like that done, but I have no judgement of anyone that does.

People
Jessica Chastain
Sarah Paulson

I started auditioning, and the first job I ever got was understudying Amy Ryan in 'The Sisters Rosensweig' on Broadway, directed by Daniel Sullivan. I was 18 years old.

Sarah Paulson
David Tennant

I have such fond memories of watching 'Doctor Who' when I was a kid and growing up, that if I've left anybody anywhere with memories as fond, then I feel like I've done my job.

Doctor
David Tennant
Dave Chappelle

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

Dave Chappelle
Prince Harry

Part of my role and part of my job is to shine a spotlight on issues that need that spotlight, whether it's people, whether it's causes, issues, whatever it is.

People
Prince Harry
Roger Ailes

My toughest job every day is maintaining intensity with myself and with my staff.

Roger Ailes

I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it's one that I have.

Anger Coffee
Antony Starr
Merrick Garland

I think there is no greater job anybody can have than having been a prosecutor.

Merrick Garland
Dwyane Wade

I'm a playmaker, and I'm going to score. At the end of the day, my job is to put the ball in the basket.

Dwyane Wade
Mohamed Salah

We're just human beings. In the end, you do your job. I do my job in the best way I can.

Best
Mohamed Salah
Luke Evans

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

School Singing
Luke Evans
Joe Biden

My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'

Community Respect Dignity
Joe Biden
Allison Mack

As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.

Allison Mack
Andrew Cuomo

Fear is a powerful weapon. It can excite and motivate, and it can get people to yell and to scream. But fear has never created a job.

People Fear
Andrew Cuomo

It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I kind of hung out in the summer and had nothing to do, so I sort of got into acting. And then I was going to Grand Blanc High, doing the acting thing and hoping it would pan out.

Nothing
Evan Peters
Kurt Russell

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

Society
Kurt Russell
Aamir Khan

For me, acting is not a job. It is something I love. I don't do these things for awards or rewards. I do them because I love challenges.

Love Challenges
Aamir Khan
Franklin P. Jones

Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.

Money Addiction Business Ridicule
Franklin P. Jones
Jacinda Ardern

It is a woman's decision about when they choose to have children, and it should not predetermine whether or not they are given a job or have job opportunities.

Decision Children
Jacinda Ardern
Elena Kagan

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

Responsibility Time
Elena Kagan
Donald Glover

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

Funny Nothing
Donald Glover
Kyra Sedgwick

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

Humanity
Kyra Sedgwick
Gene Tierney

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

Acting Profession Being Yourself Career
Gene Tierney
Sean Connery

I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.

Money People
Sean Connery
Tom Hanks

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

Good World
Tom Hanks
Justin Hartley

I found a very comfortable style in that if I know everyone's job around me, it's going to make me better at my job.

Style
Justin Hartley
Paul Rudd

There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster.

Paul Rudd
Bill Murray

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

Money
Bill Murray
Taika Waititi

Shooting a movie should be fun! It's not a real job. It can be hard, but at the end of the day, we're dressing up and playing pretend.

Taika Waititi

I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I'd gotten my first TV job.

Michael Caine
Benedict Cumberbatch

Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.

Life Love
Benedict Cumberbatch
James Spader

The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

James Spader
Sasha Banks

I was born in California and moved around a lot. When I was 17, I moved to Boston because my mom got a job there. The moment I went to Boston, everything just felt right and fell into place on how I wanted it to be.

Sasha Banks
Tom Seaver

My job isn't to strike guys out; it's to get them out - sometimes by striking them out.

Tom Seaver
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

Boxing
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Rami Malek

Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Girls' episode, and I thought I was right for it.

Right
Rami Malek
Robert Sheehan

Who doesn't change through their 20s? I changed probably more than the average person who lives in one place and has a job. But everybody changes significantly in maturity, we'd like to think, from 20 to 30.

Change Maturity
Robert Sheehan

One of the perks of growing up, but also one of the biggest challenges, is making decisions about the future. Deciding what kind of job you want, whether you want to finish school, or whether you want to go to university are huge choices to make.

Challenges Future
Jameela Jamil
Camila Cabello

Now and forevermore, I'm going to stick up for immigrants, and I'm going to stick up for Hispanic people and their rights. I feel like that's just my job.

People
Camila Cabello
Amy Adams

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

Work
Amy Adams
Nancy Pelosi

Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

People Health
Nancy Pelosi
Hilary Swank

One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.

Greatness Things Experience
Hilary Swank
Chris Hemsworth

I get to stay active and that is my job at the moment, so I can't complain.

Chris Hemsworth
Stephen Breyer

Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him.

Good Community
Stephen Breyer
Jessica Alba

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

Kiss Thought
Jessica Alba
Dennis Quaid

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.

Dennis Quaid
Aubrey Plaza

I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

Good Business
Aubrey Plaza
Harry S. Truman

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

Depression
Harry S. Truman
Matthew Perry

I'm very similar to Chandler in many ways, although Chandler is funnier than me, and Chandler absolutely hates his job whereas I absolutely love my job.

Love
Matthew Perry

You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are and how their expertise and they're the right one for the job. But ultimately they find out they've been actually chosen for their incompetence.

Matt LeBlanc