Brody Armstrong Quotes

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

Most hiring managers interview a lot of people. So many that they generally have to go back to their notes to remember candidates - the exception being candidates with a strong hook. Sometimes these hooks are how people dress or their personality, but the best hook is a strong story that's work-related.

I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time.

You're not going to get every part, so you can't base your sense of self-worth around whether or not you actually land the job.

So you want this fucking job.

I haven't gotten jobs because I'm famous or I have a big Twitter feed - it's primarily directors. People employ me because I'm right for the part. But then, everybody needs a bit of luck, being in the right place at the right time. You just gotta be in that place for that opportunity to come by.

Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.

I did lie once to get a job as a bartender. I said I had two years' experience making drinks, when really, I'd never made a drink in my life.

My job is to get the very best people we can.

Nobody loves finishing second, as we've seen in past races. It's a sport that you want to get everything you can out of it, but sometimes it just doesn't work out.

I'm the absolute worst at getting jobs, ever. I had 100 rejections before I landed one. I kept all the letters in a folder until I realized I could just chuck them away.

I'm not the interview-giving kind.

My dad's a teacher and a football coach, and he found a job in New Jersey.

You give me someone with the right personality, and I'll give you a bar manager in three weeks. You give me someone who has been a lousy bar manager for 30 years, and in three weeks, you'll still have a lousy bar manager.

People are going to hire you, or they're not, and there's only so much you can do to hedge your bets.

I've had several different careers.

Recruiting is not an exact science.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

I graduated from college and went on one job interview and was laughing in my own head because I wouldn't hire me.

If you are healthy, you can work. If you can work, then the chances of success are higher.

I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.

You might look at my CV and see I've had 12 jobs, but I've been to over 450 auditions so I've heard 'no' a lot more than I've heard 'yes'. So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that job it will seem like icing on the cake.

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.