David Thewlis Quotes

I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.

Working at a job that you hate. Having a career and a life that you have no passion for. That's hell.

People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.

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

I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.

I'd rather be dead than work in a warehouse.

It is an immeasurable tragedy to spend a sizeable portion of one's waking hours doing a job that does not excite you nor infuse you with a sense of purpose.

I'm an actress but it's not fulfilling me in the way I thought it would.

I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the syndrome, doing a normal job.

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.

There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful.

As much as I miss the work, I don't miss NBC. I don't miss being there. It was just the wrong atmosphere for me.

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

So much of my job is about finding another job, and that's really boring.

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

I'm not a happy person when I'm working.

My job is discouraging in the extreme—it often tempts me to quit the helm in despair.

People have no idea how much I hate this job.

The whole thing with so many people empathising with 'The Office' has made me aware of how people aren't doing jobs they love, aren't living a life they love. Which I find devastating.

People in jobs that they hate must be worn out.