Patricia Heaton Quotes

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

The fear of being laid off next payday did as much damage as real unemployment.

I don't really care about job security.

There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.

There isn't a single business where anybody feels secure.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: 'Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don't you realize that?' They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn't want to enter their minds.

We don't live in a world where any job lasts forever.

I've been doing radio since I was 18, and I've been unemployed four times from radio for various reasons.

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don't know where the next job is going to come from.

I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

If my results are not good I will lose my job.

We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

As an actress, you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood.

As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

I always figured that I was one new editor away from unemployment.

As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.

You can get fired from any job at any time.