Fired Quotes

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.
Joe Pantoliano

Off, Read, Agent

When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it.
Susana Martinez

Him, Down, Young

It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
Wanda Sykes

Government, Hard

They'll totally hire me if I say I got fired from my job on the Hill because of a sex scandal.
Jessica Cutler

We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses.
Jon Porter

Work, Done, While

It was a terrible blow that was dealt when I was fired from 'Saturday Night Live', but I have to say that a few doors opened right away. Movie roles started to roll in, and pretty soon, I was over it.
Joan Cusack

Live, Night, Pretty

If you've got to get fired, it's really fabulous to get fired with a friend.
Jorja Fox

Friend, Fabulous

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.
John Hughes

Work, Fun, Simple

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Why, Here, Tell

I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.
Tom T. Hall

Work, Anybody, Hundreds

I get all fired up about aging in America.
Willard Scott

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?
Michelle Branch

Life, Bad, Moment

Well I would never say to anybody that Warren Beatty got fired, but uh, I think he and Quentin fell out of love, and I think Warren told Quentin to hire me for the film.
David Carradine

Love, Film, Anybody

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.
Nelson Algren

Week, Guy, Monday

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.
Gregg Easterbrook

Punishment, Fitting, Espn

When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.
Adolf Galland

Give, Fighter, General

I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
Karrie Webb

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
Anita Diament

Book, Through, Before

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.
Toby Young

Before, Wait, Write

I had never really fired guns before, so this was all very new to me.
Shane West

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.
Paul Graham

Him, Found, Company

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.
Terry Gilliam

God, Different, After

I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.
Malcolm Mclaren

Art, Mother, School

So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years.
Michael Shanks

Job, Thinking, After

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?
Scott Stapp

Music, Business, Point

We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
Allen Iverson

Players, Coaches

The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers.
Erich Maria Remarque

Men, Through, Said

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
Chely Wright

Dad, Him, Player

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.
Louis Stokes

Nothing, President, Remain

I've never been fired in my life.
Kara DioGuardi

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