Top 100 Real Job Quotes
#1. I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.
Carl Lewis
#2. I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.
Daphne Guinness
#3. His real job - the job that the Owners paid him for - was to be an observer of the human condition as it was so richly displayed from day to day within these walls.
Neal Stephenson
#4. This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#5. The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back to a lesson that it wants to shirk.
C.S. Lewis
#6. When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
Hamish Linklater
#7. The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue to get older. (It's insights like this that separate the professional book author from the person with a real job.)
Dave Barry
#8. Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.
Jennifer McMahon
#9. Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.
Howie Carr
#10. I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben
#11. I don't call acting a real job, and writing is a hobby.
Joel Edgerton
#12. If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
Harrison Ford
#13. I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
Lady Gaga
#14. My only real job is to play well and do my job on the field. If I do that, all the other stuff will take care of itself.
Freddy Adu
#15. After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and I was going to go get a real job. I never thought of acting and never really wanted to be an actor.
Eliza Dushku
#16. I wouldn't be an actor if it weren't for the English teacher I had my junior year in high school. She's the one who told me I could be an actor. I had never met an actor, I had never seen a real play, only high school plays. I didn't know actors were real, that it was a real job.
Julianne Moore
#17. Wherever you are, that's your stage, your circle of influence. That's your talk show, that's where your power lies ... You have the power to change somebody's life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.
Oprah Winfrey
#18. One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.
Will Ferrell
#19. When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'
Kevin Harrington
#20. I'm very happy and being raised Catholic I assume it will end tomorrow. The rug will be pulled out from under me and someone will say, now go to your real job, shoveling poop somewhere.
Joel McHale
#21. Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.
Oprah Winfrey
#22. Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company.
Ester Dean
#23. They would send me notes on what's going on, and we would pitch in and talk about what we wanted to talk about on the show. I just really did my homework. It was more like a real job for me. Doing this talk show was like, "Wow, this is what they do?!" I can't even imagine doing it every day.
Tameka Cottle
#24. I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant.
Gwen Stefani
#25. I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.
Vivian Campbell
#26. The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.
D.H. Lawrence
#27. Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
#28. No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.
Lois Wyse
#29. 'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
Hannibal Buress
#31. My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.
Kaley Cuoco
#32. There have been years where I've had to take a real job and I wrote during slow times and lunches. I think never forgetting how lucky I am to be able to do something I love has really fueled me.
Caroline Leavitt
#33. I grew up a happy kid in Toronto. I've never suffered. I've never even had a real job! But I understand sadness and striving, and those two things tie into all the roles that I've played.
Alison Pill
#34. The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society
more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#35. It's pretty awesome to see people dressed up in period clothing and running around on horses and in carriages and all that kind of thing. Part of the fun of making a period film is just that playfulness. It's just like make believe when you're a child except you get to do it for a real job.
Cary Fukunaga
#36. To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now.
Shaquille O'Neal
#37. I conducted a bunch of interviews for Interview magazine. They actually paid me. I think I was probably 18 or 19. I was in college and I remember feeling, like, "Wow." I had a real job, and they paid me money, and it was exciting.
Jodie Foster
#38. My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Bill Hader
#39. I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.
Dave Barry
#40. Adam: "Perhaps you should get a real job and become a useful member of society."
Gordon: "Perhaps you should shove a pipe up your ass and die of lead poisoning.
Santino Hassell
#41. 'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
Adam Levine
#42. Your real job in this world is to be you.
India.Arie
#43. There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse, and anybody could die at any time.
Melissa McBride
#44. We do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.
Joanne Harris
#45. I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants.
Martin Henderson
#46. I don't go to conferences quite as much as I used to: having a child and movin away from the university leaves me with less time, but I've tried to balance things out - not just spending time with Linux all the time, but having a real job and a real life at the same time.
Linus Torvalds
#47. Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job.
Mary Lambert
#49. I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.
Monica Ali
#50. The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.
Derrick Jensen
#51. Are you using your degree as it was intended in your current job? Lots of people aren't. How is the education system keeping up with the velocity of change in what actually constitutes a real job?
Chris Brogan
#52. My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.
Imelda May
#53. H.P. Lovecraft is for the summer between junior and senior years in high school. Cosmic fear hits you about then anyway
you realize you'll soon have to Get a Real Job or Go To College or Both and in those days, Be Drafted. A dose of Cthulhu helps put these feelings in perspective.
Howard Waldrop
#54. I WILL NEVER HAVE TO HAVE A REAL JOB AGAIN. And technically? I never really did.
Amanda Palmer
#55. Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#56. My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.
Caroline Wozniacki
#57. I had a real job at fourteen years old. At seventeen, I was on my own. At twenty, I cut the liver out of a drifter and gave it to my father! 'Cause my dad's a drinker and I love my dad. And for eighty bucks, you can do anything in Mexico!
Christopher Titus
#58. It is always easy to question, to allege; the real job is to actually understand, read between the lines.
Rohit Omar
#59. I never had an interest in being a mayor 'cause that's a real job. You have to produce. That's why I was able to be a senator for 36 years.
Joe Biden
#60. It's a real job" I said. "Getting promoted to martyrdom is not the top position.
Sam Wazan
#61. Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
John Sununu
#62. I've never really had a real job. When I was young doing stand-up, I'd get 50 bucks a week here or 100 bucks a week there. Sometimes for headlining one of the rooms, or MC-ing, or something like that. So, I've never had like a normal job.
Seth Rogen
#63. Middle names are kind of like vice presidents: It's a fine distinction and certainly an honor, but you're never not aware that someone else got the real job.
Paul Reiser
#64. I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience.
Zoe Kravitz
#65. I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.
Carlos Alazraqui
#66. When I first starting writing, and no one was paying me, in order to feel like I had a real job, I would get out of bed, put on a jacket and tie every morning, and sit down at my desk.
Graham Moore
#67. I used to have pink hair," I told Seven.
"I used to have a real job," he answered.
"What happened?"
He shrugged. "I dyed my hair pink. What happened to you?
Jodi Picoult
#68. IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER.
Brian Tracy
#69. Will eventually grow up and get a real job. Until then, will keep making things up and writing them down.
Neil Gaiman
#70. When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it by then, I would just get a real job. And that fear - the fear of a real job - motivated me to be an entrepreneur.
Nick Woodman
#71. The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!
Jeremy Irvine
#72. My first six years in the business were hopeless.
There are a lot of times when you sit and you say "Why am I doing this?
I'll never make it.
It's just not going to happen.
I should go out and get a real job, and try to survive."
George Lucas
#73. What real job - what political world - would want Spencer Pratt, with the stigma I've attached to my name?
Spencer Pratt
#74. My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.
James Denton
#75. Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.
Tupac Shakur
#76. I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job.
Chris Stapleton
#77. I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
Sam Walton
#78. I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?'
Rick Baker
#79. Get a Job, she shouted silently to God. Get a real Job.
Lorrie Moore
#80. If he just had the decency to die silently yesterday, not squeal like a girl, I'd be free right now. Probably even doing some real job," she sneered.
Alexandra Engellmann
#81. I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.
Toni Morrison
#82. I've been grinding at music for over a decade now. Since I was 18, I decided that this is what I wanted to do. It's not an easy thing. When you start getting 25, 26, people are like, 'Oh you're a musician huh? That's what you're gonna do? When are you going to get a real job?' I never gave up.
Nick Fradiani
#83. I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.
Adam Hughes
#84. I knew I wanted to be an actor. I just kept saying, "Until somebody tells me to stop, until I have to go get a real job, and until I'm practically homeless, I'm not gonna get one."
Joel McHale
#85. My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!
Ken Spillman
#86. What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job.
Chris Liddell
#87. I believe in teaching as a real job. I don't think it's a substitute for anything else. It's been shown to me that teachers can help, and the writing today is just as good as it was when I started out. Technology hasn't changed that.
Ron Carlson
#88. Young people are in despair. They want a job, a real job, and we as society are guilty of not offering it.
Maurice Levy
#89. I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.
Matt Lucas
#90. For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
Sylvia Plath
#91. I have had a 'real' job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.
Robert Kiyosaki
#92. I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.
Sarah Addison Allen
#93. I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.
Hans Zimmer
#94. I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a job in a shoe store, sell real estate, or what? I was really depressed by the whole thing, because I felt like a painter, yet I couldn't make paintings.
Ralph Goings
#95. It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.
Eric Maisel
#96. I wouldn't want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn't for the life of me do the job in real life.
Jim Carter
#97. As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
Frances O'Grady
#98. My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.
Tim Cahill
#99. I'm not just going to go back to my bedroom, get a job and 'get real with myself' - come on. I'm already too old, and I'm lucky to have a job at all.
Ariel Pink
#100. I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.
Eric Close
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