Joe Buck Quotes

I do want to carry on my dad's legacy, but I also want to carve out my own path. I have to work harder, I think, just because I do have that last name. I don't want people to think that's why I am where I am in this industry. I put in the time, and I want to be just as good as my dad was.

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

I've always worked.

The best job training is a job – any job.

In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.

I learned that I had to work triply hard every time I started a new job in a newsroom to prove my value and worth.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem.

I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself.

I am not interested in building somebody else’s house with bricks from our foundation.

The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn't admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn't just get a head start by being his father's son - it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life.

I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.

In my experience and observation, senior appointments are rarely based entirely on merit.

Anybody can get a job, but what do you do when you have it?

I've never really turned to my dad for anything, I think out of fear of the label of nepotism.

My dad used to call me 'the dreamer.' He was right.

I am not because of my father, and my son Ranbir Kapoor is not because of me.

I'm very happy that people call me by my first name now. They seem to believe that I'm not just doing this job because my father did. I also hope I will be more successful than my father.

I've certainly never used my father's name as a way of getting a meeting. And fortunately, I've never needed to.

It might be easy to identify me as so-and-so's son, especially to begin with, but you only get that one first film, after which you have to prove yourself and keep improving.

I don't know that I've gotten to the point where people know me more than my dad or that I ever will or even want to get to that point.

I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up.

There's been so much media about me being a surfer dude and a lot of other jobs. I guess it's time to prove myself, to let the people know, heck, I've a brain.

This whole notion of job training centers with the government in charge of making sure you know what to do when certain jobs are lost and new jobs come along? That's not how people have meaningful lives.