Job Attitude Quotes

I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.

I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.

People ask what it's like playing Prince Charming, but it's not something you really think about when you go to work.

The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.

Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

This is a job and we want to have fun. But it's a job and we should look like we're going to work.

I don't really like those sorts of actresses who say, 'I don't want to make that movie,' but they make the movie. They just spend their time not liking being on a set and I just think it's absurd, because we are so lucky to do this job. When you accept to make a movie, just make the movie. And then it's more easy for relationships.

It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it's not easy to maintain that attitude.

A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.

I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat their profession like just another one rather than a noble profession.

I am not a parliamentarian. I am a politician. Some MPs leave and are itching to get back. I don't feel that. This is just a work environment.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

I think we've all worked with that person at the office who takes themselves and their job so seriously.

Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff.

I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.

It's easy to be just a basketball player, get paid and come here to do that. But to be professional about it is different.

I've certainly had a bad attitude to my job on many occasions. Not since 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'. I've been rather a good boy and really given it everything when I've accepted a part since then, because I've been given much better parts in films.

I love politics. It could be that, or it could be that my dad was always really big on, 'This is your job. You are going to work...' You know, it's really funny cause he was such a cowboy, and he doesn't like the concept of guys coming in like cowboys - unshaved and wearing flip flops - and stuff like that would eat him alive.

You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.

Get the big view of your job. Think, really think your present job is important. That next promotion depends mostly on how you think toward your present job.

You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.