Spencer Tracy Quotes

I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.

Economics works great for planning your life when you don't have a work passion, since we tend to assume that your job delivers only money and you trade off job hours with leisure hours. If you think your job will just be a job, pick one that pays well per hour and leaves you some time off, even if the activity of the job is boring.

I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.

I always say my first job is my building trade. The rest comes and goes.

My dad insisted I got a trade. He had a plumbing business. So you are looking at a qualified heating engineer.

I thought I'd become a welder if my racing career ended.

I encourage others to choose a career they are passionate about and can do for the rest of their lives.

I've had my eyes opened to so many things. But still, all I really want to do is my truck job. It's like an ingrained, default setting.

People from my father's generation didn't have the luxury to be unhappy in their job.

From the very first meeting, I knew that Endemol Shine was a great fit for me.

I didn't want a desk job; I knew I'd get bored.

I would not leave the 'Times' for a television job.

I've been on the other side where I know that a bad day at WWE beats the best day at Staples.

There's no point doing a job where you're uncomfortable or doing something you dislike.

I think if I'd never had found pro wrestling, I'd be a blue collar guy, working a 9-to-5 job.

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

I'd be in the wrong job if I had to stand in front of the mirror and push myself to go to work every day.

I guess I've never really wanted to be anything else. I've never even thought about having another job.

It's a practical matter. If you're useful to others, you'll be hired.

Interesting stories appeal to me, much like it appeals to the audience. Or else I might as well become a banker and make more money.

No disrespect to Cardiff but they probably needed me more than I needed them, when I was appointed.

I told my mom for years that I wanted to be a manicurist, and she'd always be like, 'But what if you went to college and you got a degree?' She'd try to explain how I could actually do a thing that would make me a ton of money, or that I didn't have to just pick the business that was closest to our house.

What your character does for a living is one of the most important choices you can make in a screenplay, even if their job is tangential to the story, because it tells you everything about the condition of their life. Are they doing what they love? Are they doing what they hate?

I don't think I've worked a day in my life.

After college I'd take up a job and I'd experience what it is to take up a job, rather than starting out on my own. I said let me just work for six months so that I know myself a little better.