Sentences with phrase «as a waitress for»

The former «Parks and Recreation» star — who worked as a waitress for longer than a decade before breaking into the acting business — spoke at The Rockefeller Foundation on Fifth Avenue.

Looking back, I see clearly that the choices I made, the people I surrounded myself with and dated, the job I had as a waitress for 13 years, that all of these things reflected my expectation to be disappointed with the outcome of my life.

However, the summer ended but Lena stayed and worked as a waitress for five more years before getting promotion.

So in high school I started working as a waitress for 20 hours a week.

Two months later, when the trees were cleared, she applied for and got a job at Buttercup Bakery, where she stayed as a waitress for six years.

You may write that Maria Green who worked as a waitress for you was an excellent employee who had a great attitude with customers, was always friendly, knew how to set tables appropriately and knew just when to draw a line.

Not exact matches

That means an estimation of all the tutoring, baby - sitting and piano lessons I was giving in high school, which as a rough guess were about $ 6,000 a year for four years, then the $ 1,000 - something I was making flipping burgers, working a cash register or waitressing during the first three years of college, and the $ 2,000 - odd I got during the last two years of business school.

Community leaders, unions and churches are backing a call for the club to increase the pay of workers employed by contractors, such as waitresses and cleaners.

«I started as a waitress, and my mother was a district manager for Denny's before I was a waitress,» Lafreeda recalls.

For example, employers should make clear waiters, waitresses, bellhops, bussers and service bartenders who customarily and regularly receive tips shall not include employees who do not customarily and regularly receive tips such as dishwashers, cooks, chefs, and janitors in tip pooling or tip sharing arrangements.

Curious as to it's make up, I asked the waitress for the specifics and she said «it's just tofu and maple.»

While looking for an engineering job I worked briefly as a waitress in a French restaurant.

I definitely took sushi for granted when I worked as a waitress at a sushi bar..

«For example, we don't let them treat the school custodians or waitresses at a neighborhood restaurant as invisible.

For nearly a year she has worked as a waitress at a chain restaurant in Orland Park.

«I worked for years as a waitress here at Umberto's and the job taught me not only the value of hard work, but about the importance of connecting with people, of being involved in the community, of understanding people's lives and wanting to help make them better.

As a waitress, Nadine Morsch was used to having to force an occasional smile for an unpleasant customer.

In Syracuse, Ms. Gillibrand is campaigning for Colleen Deacon, 39 years old, who was a waitress on food stamps before entering politics and worked for six years as the senator's regional aide.

For many years as I was waitressing at a popular restaurant in West Hollywood called Newsroom I felt as if I worked in The Comfort Zone Cafe and lived in the Comfort Zone Apartments.

I was wondering I do light walking in my job as a waitress... but I'm walking or I'm on my feet for 8/9 + hours a shift.

After graduating college, you spent a year interning for various companies while supporting yourself as a waitress.

After an injury, I had a brief stint as a waitress, modeled, and worked for a private detective before going back to school.

The Seventeen cover star looks adorable in the vid as a dancing waitress, and rocking a prom - worthy pink dress from the Betsey Johnson's vintage - inspired collection for Urban Outfitters.

Currently working as a waitress taking classes for the mental health field

I work as a waitress while going to school for Elementary Education.

As Detective Cruz sets out to find her, the clues send him into the city's seediest corners, from a Hollywood action star with a dirty little secret (James Van Der Beek), to an enterprising porn producer who takes a personal interest in his own work (Snoop Dogg), and a kinky waitress with an unusual fetish for particle physics (Autumn Reeser).

Standing out amongst this already stellar list are Rob Corddry and Patton Oswalt as Dodge's buddies who are finding new standards for hedonism as social mores dissolve, and Community's Gillian Jacobs as a waitress whose gone a bit cuckoo.

Due to their somewhat bleak financial situation, Alive and Tommy's quest for Monterrey is put on hold as she's forced to take up a job waitressing at a small diner in Tucson until she can accumulate enough money.

Posey's work over the next two years reads like a Sundance Film Festival program: in 1996, she could be seen as a Dairy Queen waitress in the ensemble - driven Waiting for Guffman, famed gallery owner Mary Boone in Basquiat, and Hope Davis» sister in The Daytrippers.

Ask her mother, Allison Janney in a major supporting role as LaVona Golden, a cussing, cigarillo smoking, matriarch who might sometimes bash her daughter but who spends every dime of the money she earns as a coffee shop waitress on coaches for her daughter's skating career.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

The dissolution of the family business takes a toll on everyone: mother Soyoung (Haerry Kim), picks up a low - paying job as a waitress, while father Jin (Youn Ho Cho), sits at home alternately begging for work over the phone and drowning himself in cheap booze.

The comedy co-created by Will Arnett and Mark Chappell follows Chip's (Will Arnett) life and image as a guru is upturned after he falls for a waitress named London (Ruth Kearney), who his best friend (David Sullivan) also likes.

Description: The comedy co-created by Will Arnett and Mark Chappell follows Chip's (Will Arnett) life and image as a guru is upturned after he falls for a waitress named London (Ruth Kearney), who his best friend (David Sullivan) also likes.

Drew Barrymore does another variation on her America's Sweetheart persona as Julia Sullivan, a waitress for a catering company that also works a lot of weddings.

Not her bedraggled excuse for a husband Phil (William Fichter) who, while keeping his marriage vows, sneaks off to the local love shack for some illicit playings of the Wheel of Fortune board game with local diner waitress Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis); Not her dimbulb, lackadaisical moron of a son Jeff (Marcus Thomas) whose lust for Lite, as in Miller, cost him the use of his right hand (how the residents tell the story is one of the highlights of the flick); Not Jeff's partner Bobby Calzone (Casey Affleck) who takes it on the chin from every member of the Dearly family or his fiancé Ellen (Neve Campbell) who giggles hysterically when she hears the news of Mona's demise.

As for me, well, let's just say I'm not going to propose to Dunst's psychotically chipper waitress in the sky any time soon.

Maria Bello co-stars as Natalie, a casino waitress who starts dating him for her own reasons, but stays because, to her amazement, she's head over heels.

The actors aren't all well cast (I counted only about three I'd consider to be above average for their respective roles — Acker as Beatrice, Fillion (Waitress, White Noise 2) in the supporting role of Dogberry - the only time the audience I viewed the film with laughed at anything in the film that came from actual dialogue, rather than the injected slapstick and actors occasionally comical facial expressions, came from Fillion's delivery - and British actor Paul Meston in the minuscule part of Friar Francis) The rest often appear as though they're reciting lines without any sense of meaning in the words they are saying, and when one of those happens to be the male romantic lead, that's one hell of a liability.

As Krieps sits down beside me for coffee in a Soho hotel, I can not resist asking whether she has ever been a waitress in real life.

Yet when Eddie preys on Rose (Lili Taylor), a shy and lonely waitress, her honesty and genuine interest in his life make it difficult for him to see her as just a funny face.

The acting is first rate, with Robbie in her best role yet, but it's Janney who steals the show as Tonya's foul - mouthed, abusive mother, LaVona - a single mum and waitress determined for her daughter to succeed - using unrelentingly tough love to make it so.

Indeed, with Ms. Swank having already inherited the mantle of Ralph Macchio as The Next Karate Kid, there's a sense of déjà vu when Maggie finds a practical application for Frankie's tutelage at her day - job as a greasy - spoon waitress.

These two pros supply the film with witty banter as they investigate the crime spree and wait for their two suspects to mess up, in the process encountering the world's most frightening diner waitress and discussing the nature of televangelists.

Sam's first date with the waitress, too, is a lot of fun as the pair wittily exchange pleasantries before agreeing to live together for three days — one - night stands being so passé, and all.

Drew Barrymore is adorable as Julia, the waitress Sandler falls for.

Of the supporting cast, Tomei has the biggest part, playing the unbelievably accessible waitress who, serving as the requisite romance, makes a perfect fit for the nerdy Dudley.

Duets is the first feature about karaoke I've seen, and Byrum uses it as a suggestive metaphor for the dreams of three sets of characters who've lost their way in terms of their personal and family identities: a karaoke hustler (Huey Lewis) who meets his daughter — a Vegas showgirl played by Paltrow — for the first time at the funeral of her mother; a traveling salesman (Paul Giamatti) who flips his lid after flying to Houston instead of Orlando and then going home to an indifferent wife and kids, and who eventually splits and hooks up with an ex-con (Andre Braugher); and a young cabdriver (Scott Speedman) who reluctantly agrees to drive a waitress and part - time hooker (Maria Bello) out west.

Written by Lelio and Gonzalo Maza, the Spanish - language pic stars Daniela Vega as Marina, a waitress and singer, and Orlando (Francisco Reyes), an older man, who are in love and planning for the future.

There, she begins working as a cocktail waitress and then an assistant to a Hollywood insider, Dean Keith (Jeremy Strong, nice and sleazy), who soon has Molly running his weekly poker night out of the Cobra Club (a stand - in for the notorious Viper Room), complete with $ 10,000 buy - ins from a pool of hand - picked, high - profile names.