Top 100 Assistant Quotes
#1. A release on September 16 quoted the claim of the assistant secretary for labor at OSHA that tests show 'it is safe for New Yorkers to go back to work in New York's financial district.' (OSHA's responsibility extends only to indoor air quality for workers, however.)
National Commission On Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States
#2. Quentin Tarantino assistant called me and said: "I have good news and bad news. The good news is you got the part, the bad news is you have to do it." I was like: "Oh Jesus, when am I supposed to do this?" I was prepping Hostel.
Eli Roth
#3. An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.
Jeremy Irons
#4. Once I had a potentially heart attack-inducing eight double espressos in one day. I think my assistant secretly swaps my coffees for decaf as she doesn't want me to die of caffeine overdose.
Steven Soderbergh
#5. I'm fortunate to have a team of people who help me. I've got an assistant, an office manager, a nanny - she's not full-time, but she's there when I need her.
Marcia Gay Harden
#6. I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.
Mark Strong
#7. He had grown fond of the old proprietress, Mrs. Matalov, who had been a magician's assistant back in the 1930s, and who now, even at ninety-three, had the stoic dignity of a beautiful woman who was about to be cut in half.
Dan Chaon
#8. I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.
Lawrence Wright
#9. If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
Patricia Velasquez
#10. I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.
Roz Chast
#11. I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.
Dean Smith
#12. I'd just love to have another TV series. I'll be the assistant D.A. on some crime show.
Julie White
#13. If we just knew which end to start with,' Lamen said. It was suddenly obvious that Lamen had no idea what to do. With a clear moment of insight, Charls saw that Lamen was not a cloth merchant's assistant. He was the prince's private companion, and had no real skills whatsoever. 'Guilliame,
C.S. Pacat
#14. Special Assistant Agent in Charge
Lang."
He nearly smiled at the title she knew she'd botched again.
"Just 'Mr Lang' is fine.
Roxanne St. Claire
#15. I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts' work in the White House, as in the counselor's office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general.
Alberto Gonzales
#16. In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#17. Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.
Woody Hayes
#18. I put myself around good people, including my assistant coaches. A lot of head coaches are intimidated by their assistant coaches, they'd rather get people that are far less talented than them because it's not threatening.
Tony DiCicco
#19. Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.
Criss Angel
#20. Before and after my debut, I've helped out other manga artists from time to time, but I have no experience of being exclusively an assistant. Nor have I done individual or self-published manga.
Natsuki Takaya
#21. Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.
Robert Caro
#22. Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval.
Lloyd Grove
#23. I had tried marijuana several times, but in the words of my friend and longtime assistant Janet Stark, When I smoke pot, it makes me want to hide under the bed with a box of graham crackers and not share.
Linda Ronstadt
#24. My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: 'Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say ... '
He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant.
Neil Gaiman
#25. Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.
Trey Gowdy
#26. You can't have assistant coaches who aren't loyal - but you can learn a lot from your assistant coaches.
Tony DiCicco
#27. That's good. Because you're going to be my assistant." He grins like a Cheshire cat.
I raise my eyebrows in surprise. "I am?"
"Yep, I'm going to put my hands all over that body of yours in the front of the room and you're going to kick my ass.
Vi Keeland
#28. I joined the Wildlife Conservation Society, working there, in 1995, but I started working with them as a student in 1991. I was appointed as a teaching assistant at my university because I accomplished with honor.
Corneille Ewango
#29. Passion and hunger are the two ingredients that I look for in first making the judgment on - whether an athlete, an assistant coach, or a horse trainer or anybody I do business with.
Rick Pitino
#30. Richards and Maureen Sherbondy, also contributed their ideas at various points in the story, as did my sister, Joann Scanlon, and my assistant,
Diane Chamberlain
#31. I was a hairdresser's assistant. I used to get 20p tips for washing an old woman's hair. I used to get there at 8 A.M., leave at 6 P.M. and get £10.
Russell Tovey
#32. Retaining the phrases was a treacherous enterprise, however. His greatest problem these days had been boredom. Now he had discovered its loyal assistant - poor memory!
Norman Mailer
#33. I'm a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I'm agoraphobic. I'm scared to leave my house. I haven't been alone in, like, two years. I'm either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won't go anywhere by myself; I'm too terrified.
Halsey
#34. It was a little disappointing, really. As an inventor he could at least have had a hunchback assistant, or perhaps a metal one.
Kady Cross
#35. I am not getting you a brain, because I am not that kind of assistant, Dr. Frankenstein.
Rachel Caine
#36. There was an assistant professor I kind of had a crush on, but I was far too awkward and far too nervous to ever say anything.
Lauren Stamile
#37. Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?
Jim Valvano
#38. As sub-assistant-treasurer in this archipelago, there are conversations I've been meaning to have. We could have those now, young Loam.
N.D. Wilson
#39. In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.
Joanna Scott
#41. I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
Taylor Schilling
#42. I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life.
Megan Gallagher
#43. Yeah, that wasn't gonna work. He couldn't date Emily. She was Lisa's sister, for God's sake. And his assistant. And he needed her at the club more than he needed her in his bed. He wanted her in his bed, but he wasn't impulsive like his younger brothers.
Jules Barnard
#44. I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.
Shirley Maclaine
#45. When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.
Lauren Greenfield
#46. During his first year at the Eclectic that, by his second year, the school had promoted him from janitor to assistant professor.
Candice Millard
#47. I was in Hiroshima with my assistant, and I said to him, 'You know, I've done close to a thousand shows with Yes. I think I'm done. I don't think I can do another one.' I went back to L.A. and left the band and got into film.
Trevor Rabin
#48. I'm a good assistant. That's why I don't have an assistant, because I'm so on it that no one can be as on it as me. I know that.
Kirsten Dunst
#49. I wouldn't go down the route of having an assistant. I don't want to be like that. I want to be normal.
Saoirse Ronan
#50. Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.
Richard Widmark
#51. This'll be a hootload of fun," coming from a taxidermist's assistant translates to: "This will cost thousands in psychoanalysis and will probably ruin your dress.
Jenny Lawson
#52. I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.
Elliott Abrams
#53. The one thing in my contract that they have backstage for me is bananas. And usually my assistant will go and get me chicken broth.
Joshua Bell
#54. I'm on tour all the time, so I stop at thrift shops. The minute we hit a town, I'll have my assistant Googling thrift stores. I have him go check beforehand; then we go there.
Travie McCoy
#55. It's one of the most beautiful memories of my life. Not everyone has a chance to meet Greta Garbo! I was so in awe of her that I recently had my assistant search online for her film Queen Christina [1933]. I cherish that rare DVD like a precious keepsake now.
Giovanna Cau
#56. By mid-November, his protests notwithstanding, whiskers began sprouting from his face. A few weeks later, his assistant private secretary, John Hay, approvingly punned: Election news Abe's hirsute fancy warrant - Apparent hair becomes heir apparent.44
Harold Holzer
#57. I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director of this prison, I allow all the Catholics to observe freely and with some joy this day in this home.
Odilo Globocnik
#58. My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?
Jodi Picoult
#59. He has also worked as a shop assistant, bicycle-repair mechanic, journalist, actor, eccentric dancer, and mail-order bride. He has never worked for MI5. Don't believe anyone who tel s you otherwise. He is, however, secretly Superman.
Simon R. Green
#60. And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.
Don Shula
#61. The assistant, a young man with a single-digit body mass index, looks ill at ease. He visibly struggles to control his urge to snatch the box out of Ove's hands.
Fredrik Backman
#63. It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
Zoey Deutch
#64. So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.
John Frankenheimer
#65. Executive assistant. "Mrs. Albrecht, how are you today?" "Very well. I just got here and thought maybe I had missed you." "Nope. I just got here too." "Come in, please." The house had a two-story entry area
Michael Connelly
#66. I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.
Kevin J. Anderson
#67. I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.
Chuck Palahniuk
#68. My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.
Vash Young
#69. Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#70. I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.
Octavia Spencer
#71. My assistant says I'm an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts ... about 4,000 now. Maybe I'll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts.
Bruce Vilanch
#72. Lombardi: [to his assistant] Could you get us some writing paper, please.
Eli: A lot of it. A whole lot of it.
Book Of Eli Movie
#73. Stephen D'Evelyn, a scholar working primarily on Hildegard's Symphonia, was a teaching assistant in my 2005 course on "Hildegard and the Gospels" and a valuable discussion partner for the translations we looked at in class.
Beverly Mayne Kienzle
#74. Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big.
Brad Bird
#75. The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower ... in the White House.
Betty Hill
#76. I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day.
Richard Lester
#77. Tell him what I told the others-that I'm happy to have you watch me, and serve as my assistant, but only on my terms. Or,if you're feeling lucky ... you can tell him that Dearly said he can go to hell.
Lia Habel
#78. I didn't come out and roll from job to job - my first year was really tough. I had to work as a teaching assistant for an agency; I ran a pancake stall in Dulwich Market. I taught drama classes and ran my own workshops. I applied for every advert on Gumtree there possibly was.
Cush Jumbo
#79. Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.
Chris Carmack
#80. There's the guy who trained me, you sexy son-of-a-bitch. I knew you could do this. I told the assistant, I said, 'Do you even know who you're dealing with here? Pfft. Pfft.'"
"You definitely didn't say that."
"Nope. I sure as hell didn't ...
Victoria Scott
#81. I remember playing in my mom's closet with Kim as little girls - we had this game we played, I was Donna Karan, and she was my assistant, and I was really bossy.
Kourtney Kardashian
#82. The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.
Paul D. Boyer
#83. It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights Act and help make its promise a reality.
Thomas Perez
#84. I had always been fascinated by comics, but it had taken me several weeks to make up my mind to buy 'Watchmen'; for someone on a publisher's assistant's salary, it was some quite unheard-of sum of money.
Susanna Clarke
#85. I write longhand; I make changes longhand, and I have an assistant who types it up. She lives 70 yards away. Every afternoon, I have a case I leave out on the porch, and she brings it back the next morning.
Donald Hall
#86. I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
John Boorman
#87. I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.
Quentin Blake
#88. A difficult decision for the referee's assistant. I wouldn't beat him up over it.
Kenny Cunningham
#89. Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.
Tony Greig
#90. With a clear moment of insight, Charls saw that Lamen was not a cloth merchant's assistant. He was the prince's private companion, and had no real skills whatsoever.
C.S. Pacat
#91. Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
Adam Oates
#92. Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.
Billy Bob Thornton
#93. Coming out of Juilliard, I had a big head, and a lot of people wouldn't want to be an assistant. But I am so fortunate, and I've learned a ton.
Bryan Cogman
#94. The skin around the assistant director's eyes stretches.
Anthony Doerr
#95. Now is not the time, he sternly reminded his cock. I'm busy apologizing to my assistant.
Jessica Clare
#96. I've lost count of all my assistant coaches who have been made head coaches.
Sid Gillman
#97. I'm into capturing the moment. Sometimes, I'll rip the camera out of my assistant's hands and he'll be shouting, But there's no film in the camera! and I think, Never mind! Let's go.
Ellen Von Unwerth
#98. In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.
Dalai Lama
#99. I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.
J.J. Abrams
#100. I'm washing lettuce. Soon, I'll be on fries. In a few years, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.
Louie Anderson
