Top 260 Hired Quotes

Uber has a lot of money, and they’ve hired a lot of good people, and they have the capacity to professionalize.

I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston’s intense, precise directions tortured me.

I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year’s Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.

My first job ever was, I got hired by Oprah Winfrey.

Everywhere that Americans spread off the Eastern seaboard, heading west across this country, they put up the schoolhouse first, hired a schoolteacher, and put all the kids in school.

As an actor, you’re pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people’s words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

I was hired to make United better, and that’s what we’ll do.

As a businessman, I learned something that Donald Trump never figured out: It isn’t about how many times you yell, ‘You’re fired,’ but instead, how many times you say, ‘You’re hired.’

With an extraordinary amount of federal employees authorized to use 100% official time on behalf of their union, the federal government loses the immensely valuable civil service for which he or she was originally hired to perform.

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

Bond, especially Connery’s Bond, was an existential hired gun with an aristocrat’s tastes – just right for a time when class was a matter of brand names and insouciant gestures.

I hear from everybody, and they say ‘Joe, nowhere but in Washington do they think not working together makes sense.’ We’re not hired to fight.

I saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late ’70s – and like almost every North American male of a certain age, I went because a friend was hired by Berry that very day to be part of the legend’s backup band.

I’ll just say that there are certain people who continue to be hired in Hollywood, and that leaves me truly shocked.

I’ve never gotten hired for drama because I’m a good improviser. I don’t think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.

Usually in TV… A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It’s very much a producer’s medium.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.

I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.

As people know in coaching, you can get fired and hired just like that.

I was hired to do this one great script called ‘Cap’n Ricky’ and that project is up in the air at the moment.

I’ve read many great samples, both of existing shows I liked and original pilots, and definitely hired the writers – or, at least, tried to!

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn’t have any foolishness about them.

It was Labor Day weekend in 1983, and Dad hired me to run Mick’s Lounge, a bar he co-owned, for $200 a week. The business was nearly bankrupt. But I said, ‘Dad, I can fix it.’ It was the most natural thing I’d ever done. It just made sense to me.

I’ve always been a part-time model since I graduated from high school. I was hired by one of the major agencies, Wilhelmina in New York, so I modeled there and played basketball during the school season.

I remember, I was at the house with my oldest son and I got that call from Johnny Ace. You know that call. Johnny was the guy that hired me, fired me and hired me back, which was kind of cool. But I was just fired, everything stopped, my whole world stopped.

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

To become a Secret Service agent, applicants must pass a polygraph exam. But after being hired, agents are never required to undergo regular lie detector testing again.

I was hired by the ‘Tom Joyner Morning Show’ to do commentary that makes people think. I want my audience to feel like they are learning and not being pandered to.

I really believe if I’m the best person for the role, I’ll be hired. That’s always been my experience.

It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we’d do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation.

Rather than spend so much time wondering if I’m going to get hired, or is it a problem that I’ve got this black-tar history, I’ve just got to keep doing what I’m doing and try to be decent.

I tend to get hired because the filmmakers like what I do, so there’s usually not that much conflict about the direction.

What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract.

We need more partnerships like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can get the training they need to get hired right out of school.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.

If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways.

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities – without outside interference.

You’re constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

The genesis of Donald Trump’s relationship with Paul Manafort begins with Roy Cohn. That Roy Cohn: Joe McCarthy’s heavy-lidded henchman, lawyer to the Genovese family. During the ’70s, Trump and his father hired Cohn as their lawyer to defend the family against a housing discrimination suit.

My first paying gig was a play called ‘The Voice of the Prairie’ at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster – a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s – and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn’t get hired for a year.

You have to strike a balance between imprinting the film with your voice, and trusting these amazing, talented people you’ve hired to do great work.

Trump has hired people who have sabotaged him.

I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part – they weren’t calling it an extra, but I didn’t have lines. It was a ‘featured’ part.

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

Both my parents worked at the Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company, with my dad eventually being hired by another company called Summit Laboratories that made chemical hair straighteners.

The last reason I want to be hired is because of my gender. I want to be hired because you trust me, because of my potential, because you believe that I know basketball, and we go and we build from there.

I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could totally do it on my own, which I did for a while. I’ve hired a babysitter before, but as for a full-time caregiver… for a control freak like me, it ain’t gonna happen!

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I’ve hired many people at very strange places.

I don’t want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I’m just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.

My experience – I’ll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don’t get hired for something, but I’ve never had an experience that made me feel any less than.

It was very spur of the moment. When I heard WWE was having tryouts… I would not let the opportunity pass me by. I hired someone to make my video, and I sent in the video, thinking nothing would come of it.

You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.

If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than just waiting around to be hired.

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: ‘Is your goal to be a head football coach?’

The actress they’d hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn’t like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.