Assistants famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
-- Adam Oates -
I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.
-- Alexander Wang -
I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt -
Use video to train assistants you'll be surprised how quickly they learn.
-- Andrew Mayne -
In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.
-- Andy Rooney -
I don’t believe that your phone should be an assistant,
-- Andy Rubin -
I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage.
-- Angela Kinsey -
First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.
-- Anna Chlumsky -
I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!
-- Anne Robinson -
I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.
-- Anton Corbijn -
So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn’t complain. It was normal.
-- Bernhard Langer -
I dont have any assistants, I do it all myself, I dont have any secretaries.
-- Billy Sherwood -
If you want to drop off the face of the earth, just be an assistant coach.
-- Bob Griese -
Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big.
-- Brad Bird -
If you don't have an assistant, you are one!
-- Cameron Herold -
I could do nothing without my problems; they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
-- Charles Kettering -
I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.
-- Cheryl Hines -
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
-- Darrell Royal -
When he faced me again, he looked ashamed of himself. "I have gravely underestimated you, Darren," he said. "I will not do so again. I made a wiser choice than I realized when I chose you to serve as my assistant. I feel honoured to have you by my side.
-- Darren Shan -
Is Jesus a Saviour who saves you, or is he an assistant who helps you save yourself?
-- Darrin Patrick -
If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.
-- Daryl Hall -
Clarabelle...Clarabelle... You worked as Kenspeckle Grouse's assistant, did you not?' 'One of the. He fired all the others.' 'But not you?' 'He fired me on the second day, but I kept coming in. I had nowhere else to go.' 'And then you killed him.' 'Yes.' 'A Remnant squirmed inside you, and you killed Kenspeckle Grouse.' 'Yes.' Nye grinned. 'You're hired. But I have warn you, if you try to kill me, I will dissect you and sing along to your screams.' 'Can I have Mondays off?' 'You may.
-- Derek Landy -
I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'
-- Don Meyer -
I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what's the shortcut? What's the better option?' Then thankfully, someone said, 'Why don't you become an actor?'
-- Emraan Hashmi -
I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
-- Gene Simmons -
I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they've done.
-- George C. Marshall -
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.
-- Harry Houdini -
Coordinating the retreat was important too, so important that Jiaan had assigned Aram as Fasal's assistant, to be sure he didn't overlook anything important. Like the fact that they were supposed to retreat.
-- Hilari Bell -
Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant.
-- Hjalmar Schacht -
a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff
-- Jennifer Egan -
An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.
-- Jeremy Irons -
So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.
-- John Frankenheimer -
The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.
-- John Frankenheimer -
We talked about it. An assistant coach suggested fouling, but I rejected it because I was afraid we'd foul them shooting and get beat that way. Hindsight couldn't have been worse than what happened to us.
-- John Whisenant -
My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself
-- John Wooden -
I know that Martin Johnson [the England coach] was in the stands, but I didn't feel it was up to me to impress them. He and his assistant [Brian Smith] were here to support me.
-- Jonny Wilkinson -
I'm a good assistant. That's why I don't have an assistant, because I'm so on it that no one can be as on it as me. I know that.
-- Kirsten Dunst -
When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.
-- Lauren Greenfield -
Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.
-- Mark Messier -
I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.
-- Mark Strong -
I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don't text that much or email. I like to sit down face-to-face and have a conversation with you. I'm old-fashioned.
-- Mark Wahlberg -
We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.
-- Martin Luther -
Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company
-- Mary, Queen of Scots -
I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life.
-- Megan Gallagher -
When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.
-- Mike Lookinland -
I don't live lavishly, so it's not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day.
-- Mila Kunis -
I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
-- Patricia Velasquez -
I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
-- Patrick Ewing -
I'm really a nightmare for the fashion designer because I take away all of his authority, and I become the authority, and I turn him into my assistant. You could say I intervene, and I intervene in a very determining way in all the aspects that have to do with the visual construction of the film.
-- Pedro Almodovar -
I am not getting you a brain, because I am not that kind of assistant, Dr. Frankenstein.
-- Rachel Caine -
Analyzin' miss clairol, fendi'd down mascara on, assistant manager in paragon
-- Raekwon -
My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.
-- Raf Simons -
Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.
-- Randy Pausch -
I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.
-- Richard Donner -
Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
-- Rick Bragg -
Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can’t read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
-- Robert Rauschenberg -
I wouldn't go down the route of having an assistant. I don't want to be like that. I want to be normal.
-- Saoirse Ronan -
I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.
-- Star Jones -
Talk to the assistant press secretary, the deputy to key administration officials.
-- Steve Scully -
I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.
-- Taraji P. Henson -
A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'
-- Tommy Cooper -
Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.
-- Tony Greig -
Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.
-- Trey Gowdy -
I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.
-- Trishelle Cannatella -
One of my assistants was on Instagram and showed me how it was working. I thought it was playful, the way you go through images, a little like cinema. It's a bit like a filmstrip that's animated by your finger.
-- Camille Henrot -
I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.
-- Carol Friedman -
For me probably the best moment is before I get started in the morning. I get up and I ride my bike before I come into the studio, so there's a lot of peace and quiet right before the day starts and my assistants get here.
-- Jacob Hashimoto -
My assistants generally do all the flowers and all of the decorative work. I concentrate on the figure.
-- Kehinde Wiley -
You cannot foster a collaborative environment when people's offices are completely locked, where you cannot even see the assistant because the offices are so big.
-- Marcelo Claure -
I don't really have a lot of interns, although I do now use Research Assistants to help me compile indexes when that is necessary.
-- Oliver D. Crisp -
If you could see a photograph of what it took to make an advertising photograph - things you don't think about, like the photo assistant carefully arranging the meatballs - the degree of unnaturalness would be astonishing. Yet it produces an image that looks natural, and is orchestrated to provoke basic emotional responses.
-- Sandy Skoglund -
I tell my assistant “I'm busy! unless it's Jesus or Taylor (Swift) don't bother meâ€
-- Scott Borchetta -
Think like a head coach, but act like an assistant coach
-- Tommy Amaker -
And at the UN she took the advice - she had to take the advice - of the State Department and the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations. They keep our UN representatives on a very short leash. She did as she was told, and voted as she was told.
-- William A. Rusher -
I learned through apprenticeship. I was an assistant to a defensive coach, and I'm still learning.
-- Brendan Daly -
I don't believe that your phone should be an assistant.
-- Andy Rubin -
Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.
-- Roger McGuinn -
A difficult decision for the referee's assistant. I wouldn't beat him up over it.
-- Kenny Cunningham
