Michael Madsen Quotes

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 thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

Any time you're a type, your career's over.

I don't necessarily think that when I graduated college, I had a plan to work at an ad agency. I had a plan in terms of getting the best job I could, like, just whatever normal job.

When I graduated from Brown, I had a very limited conception of jobs, careers, and what I wanted to do. Basically, I figured I should do some kind of thought work that paid well, but I wasn't sure what.

I've always had a proper job. I don't know anything else.

I'd get another job before I would play music I don't enjoy. But then, I'm really not qualified to do anything else.

I was a business major at the University of Richmond, and after I graduated, I took a job at a corporate ad agency. I had comedic dreams, but I also had a realistic look at what I had to do when I left school: maybe I'm funny, but maybe I'm one of a hundred thousand funny people, you know?

The reality of a long-term career is that there are ups and downs.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.

I haven't got a real job.

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.