John McEnroe Quotes

Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

For those who are out of work, to have the confidence from dressing appropriately and to feel good about themselves, it's really important.

When people make fun of us, it's fine. I get it.

Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.

If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

There was a time when I wasn't working a lot. It ebbs and flows. Mostly I was just living my life and playing 'Fallout 3,' a very fun game.

Whether it is your height, your weight or your skin, someone is going to pick on something and make fun of it. My legs were just a more obvious target.

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm not qualified to do anything. That's the problem.

Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.

As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a twenty something with no job prospects or life partner in sight, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

I'm very good at being out of work.

I worked at the Illinois unemployment office. I got $55 a week and the unemployed got $45. And they only had to come in once a week.

One camel does not make fun of another camel's hump.

Anyone with a job wants to hear about how to keep it or get a better one, not what a politician has to offer when workers find themselves with a pink slip.

Unemployed people are spoiled