Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

I did not work for a year after 'Margarita With a Straw'.

Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.

There was a time when I had no work, and I had to sit at home for 4 years.

I didn't work for a year after Wall Street. I finished that in November, and then it was the following October that I did Drive, so I took a year off. I didn't do anything at all, really. I just hung around.

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

When 'MADtv' got cancelled, I didn't work at all - for three years.

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

The children of those people [long term unemployed] have less education, earn less, have higher unemployment. The problems are visited upon the children

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

Labour Isn’t Working

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work -- and masses of unemployed?

Almost half of the Black young men in America are not employed. There are not that many lazy people in the entire country..

Treating unemployment as a national problem is almost always a mistake. Employment trends vary dramatically by race, geography, gender and level of education. But none of that is reflected in the all-encompassing unemployment rate, and hence policies informed only by that number are bound to fall short.

The unemployed want to work. They are not chiselers.

However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.

When you haven't got a job, a joke is about the only thing that's free.

We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with.

I hate not working. It's that lack of purpose. It becomes very easy to lie in until midday.

The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you're not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to do.

I don't want to be doing a job where I'm not doing a job, just sitting around in my flat just bored.

There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

Having no work would be terrible.

I live in a joint family with 17 members under one roof. My father is an MA, but he didn't get a job, because all his certificates got destroyed when our house caught fire. So my father took up farming - fish farming and vegetable farming.

I like not having a job, not having to get up early in the morning is awesome. I would recommend it to anybody.

I just did loads of dead-end jobs and a lot of travelling - just farting around, really. I had quite a lot of fun, but I've got no qualifications, no skills.