Top 580 Assistant Quotes & Sayings

I'd like to be an assistant producer to a reality show.

Martin Scorsese was one of the few who had not been an assistant. Most of the guys had been an assistant and worked their way up. But I had seen an underground picture he had made in New York, a black-and-white film. I had done a picture for American International, about a Southern woman bandit, the Ma Barker story, and it was very successful, and I had left to start my own company, and they wanted me to make another one.

What I disliked most about working as a shop assistant wasn't the occasional snooty customer or the shop or the hours, but the way people reacted when I told them I was a shop assistant - their automatic assumption that I didn't enjoy it.

I've been an assistant for a number of years.

In school we did all sorts of things, molds, slab building. We were not very proficient on the wheel because the woman who taught was not proficient on the wheel. And so we learned from her assistant who had learned from her assistant the year before and so on, and that was not very good training.

I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.

My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

On returning to India I took up a short assignment as assistant to the secretary of jury at the International Film Festival, and Satyajit Ray was the chairman. He was on the lookout for an assistant, and that's how I went to Kolkata. I learnt a lot - the discipline, conceptualization, planning your shots.

Oh, I'm just Ego's assistant. It's not anything big.

I can live without a computer. My assistant checks my e-mails.

When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss.

You can't have assistant coaches who aren't loyal - but you can learn a lot from your assistant coaches.

I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.

There's some things assistant coaches aren't ready to do. They're not the head coach.

I get cast a lot as the best friend or the assistant.

I was on a picture for four or five days, had an opportunity to be on a set, and the assistant cameraman kept showing me things. One day I climbed the fence, knowing they needed an assistant cameraman. A couple of days later, I was one. The first day or two, it was pretty disastrous, but I knew something about photography, and I caught on quick.

As a young guy, you talk to the assistant coach.

I worked from a very young age as an assistant director.

People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.

I put myself around good people, including my assistant coaches. A lot of head coaches are intimidated by their assistant coaches, they'd rather get people that are far less talented than them because it's not threatening.

The physician is only nature's assistant.

Bobby Tom: You're supposed to be my assistant, not a baby-sitter! Gracie: One and the same.

You look at the assistant coaches under [Pat Riley] that played and they have become prosperous within this game. It triples all the way down from the assistant players to the coaches. Patrick Ewing went into coaching as well as myself.

I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.

I'm avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can't justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can't do it!

I was the assistant to the editor-in-chief of 'Esquire Magazine.' And my experience as an assistant was really best case scenario. My boss was absolutely the greatest boss I could have asked for. But I think there's something universal about being an assistant, regardless of whether or not your boss is the greatest or a complete terror.

I don't believe that your phone should be an assistant.

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.

The burdens of being a head coach are different from being an assistant. If I had been an assistant coach for awhile, then become a head coach, I probably would have lasted longer.

Is Jesus a Saviour who saves you, or is he an assistant who helps you save yourself?

I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.

If you don't have an assistant, you are one!

I am actually a trained lab assistant.

A manager is an assistant to his men.

I was Jazzy Jeff's assistant.

Every night, I sit with an assistant director and learn my dialogues.

I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

People tell me I need an assistant, but I don't want one.

My son works as a production assistant in television.

I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It's like a Tetris game.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

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.

I was a ball boy for the Atlanta Falcons; I was a tax assessor - this was all in high school - I was an account assistant at the courthouse, and then I was a real estate assistant.

I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.

I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life.

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

1968 in Paris renewed my options. There was suddenly a desire of inventing new things, and I while I was working as an editor, the assistant editor thought I had a gift, and when he shot his own film, he hired me as his assistant camera, and I trained myself to do the light for him.

I'm not really big on humiliating assistant coaches in front of everybody.

I call myself the assistant cult leader.

Most of my friends are assistant directors.

I was hired as an assistant at 'SNL' in 2002.

I don't know what my assistant would do besides get me pot.

Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.

I was a production assistant in the post department on 'The Surreal Life.' And it's been reported before that I was an assistant editor on 'The Surreal Life.' That is not true.

I wrote 'The Assistants' while I was the Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief of 'Esquire.'

Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by U.S. Marines.

I didn't want to end my coaching career as an assistant in the NBA.