At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

My dream job has already happened.

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.

That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.

There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful.

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.

It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.

The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.