Sara Pascoe Quotes

I've sold a lot of different product. Very briefly, I sold Time Life Books on the phone.

Most of us have jobs that require some handling of other peoples' feelings and our own, and in that sense, we are all partly flight attendants.

Companies from which I have purchased items are more than welcome to call me with a sale or discount. If I request information on your Web site, please call me. If I don't want your wares, calling me 15 times in a week will not change that.

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.

A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.

I marketed pens - on the phone. But the beauty of the gig was that you had to call these strangers and say, 'Hi, how ya doing?' You made up a name, like, 'Hey, it's Edward Quartermaine from California. You're eligible to receive this grandfather clock or a trip to Tahiti.' You promise them all these things if they buy a gross of pens.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

As far as being a deliveryman is concerned, I see nothing wrong with being a delivery man. You know, black or white or Hispanic or Chinese or whatever, you know? It's a job.

When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.

Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

A telemarketer has as much right to force people to listen to a sales pitch as a door-to-door salesman has to force himself into a home.

It’s harder and harder to get a job if you just have a strong back. You need an education.

Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness, that Indolence is justly considered as the mother of Misery.

As we manage our time I think we shall never get out of employment.

I function better in a world where I have to wake up every morning to go to work.

It's so hard to work that I feel so lucky any time I get to work.

That's the nature of the business. If you're not doing the job good enough then they're looking to replace you.

Let's see... Rihanna! Work, work, work, work, work, work; OK, what? How much work does it take to move your behind, honey? I don't understand the job situation you're going through.

I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.

Nobody is looking for work who doesn't need work. That's why we look for work.

I was actually really good at telemarketing.

Something great about 'The Last Ship' is that it employs a lot of actors, and a lot of actors are getting work because of it, and all these people are in here, and all these artists are working together.