Ian Hislop Quotes

I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.

If you can find a way to make a living doing something you enjoy, or a range of things that you enjoy, then it can scarcely be called work.

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy.

You want to strike that happy medium: the balance of being able to find creative satisfaction in your profession, be able to afford a roof over your head, but still have the freedom to live a relatively normal life.

It's so insane to me that this is my actual job, that I get to come to set and do what I enjoy doing and get paid for it.

Quite honestly, as long as I am working, can enjoy what I do, get on with it, and put bread on the table, I am really happy.

I couldn't be happier with my career.

I have the best job in the whole world because I get paid to do something I love. How many people do you know who can say that?

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

Everybody should get to make a living with their passion.

It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and love what you do' philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status.

I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

I'm very fortunate to get paid for something I love doing.

I just want to be able to have fun, make a living, feed my family and create something that I'm proud of, and I'm all those things. It's great.

It never ceases to amaze me that I get to do this for a living.

I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work.

I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.

If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

I feel very lucky that I make a living doing what I always wanted to do.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.