Mahershala Ali Quotes

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

Dentists seem to me very orderly, businesslike people who appear to become somewhat bored with the routine of their work after a period of time. Perhaps I'm wrong.

Luckily, I'm doing other things besides just modeling, because frankly, I'm a little bored with it.

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

I've got a new pair of trainers. That's the only difference in my life since I started working for Amazon.

There are plenty of days when I would love to get in my truck, drive to work, walk behind the pawn counter and just do a regular job.

Sometimes I think I'll go off and be a milkman or a greengrocer, some easy job.

I graduated college and moved back home, started helping my dad, did landscaping for a living.

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

Racing's been good to me, but I'm bored of it.

I didn't want a desk job; I knew I'd get bored.

No doubt, every job has repetitive aspects.

What I want in my career is different to what I wanted when I was 21. It's got to be something that keeps my family together, that allows me to be present in their lives.

When you wrestle for 15 years, you don't want to go back to driving that forklift.

There's no challenge involved in any kind of role. I don't have to prove or impress anybody.

I've always been an independent producer. I'd kind of like to be hired help for a change. I don't mind that.

I have my dream job.

There's definitely a lot of moments in my life now where I go, 'Wow, I get paid for this.' I've had worse jobs.

I couldn't really justify playing for money, and I think what I wanted to achieve put me at too great a risk, so I just decided on another profession.

I know all my tricks, and I'm pretty bored with them, so if that's all someone wants, I'd rather wait for TV money and not work so hard.

I was working at Papa John's full-time. I had just quit my part-time job at UPS. I was there for two years.