Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere, which was part of the reason I was homeless. I couldn't get a job pumping gas. I couldn't get a job working at a warehouse, I couldn't get a job at Baskin Robbins, I couldn't get a job anywhere.

After doing kid's television on CBBC and messing around with eight and nine year olds, there was a period of three years in the middle of that when I wasn't doing anything. I was working as a receptionist and in a pub; I was a cleaner and all sorts of things. All life has its ups and downs.

When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.

I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

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

Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots.

When I had jobs, I was always doing manual jobs because I couldn't think. I worked at the docks, unloading trucks, and did ridiculous jobs.

I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.

I was adrift for a while. I worked as a substitute teacher; I sold cars.

Tough times were when I didn't have a job and nobody called me.

In between jobs, you think your luck has run out, but they keep on letting me do what I love to do. I really can't complain.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

I used to listen to 'Ready to Die' around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.

Every day, I just thank the universe that I am as lucky as I am. Because, I went through periods of time when I didn't have a single bit of work. Months and months where I was auditioning all the time. I mean, all the time, and nothing was happening.

The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

I cleaned toilets and shined shoes.

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

People often think that losing your job is one of the worst things that can happen to someone. And, in some cases, that might be true. But for me, unemployment can be the time and the motivation to finally go after my goals.