Evangeline Lilly Quotes

Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created.

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

My job is discouraging in the extreme—it often tempts me to quit the helm in despair.

TV is a hard job. You work 15 hours a day. People tell you what to do. I hate to do it.

After getting a law degree, I spent five unhappy months as a corporate attorney.

I do not wish to work in the TV industry anymore.

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.

I've had some terrible jobs, but working in a kitchen at Cracker Barrel is probably the worst I've ever had. I was a grill cook - awful! It wasn't the smell, it was the people. The music, too. We had to be 'country fresh,' so they played this terrible country music eight hours during the shift. It was a bleak existence - a very dark time.

I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.

I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.

I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest. Even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being satiated in a myriad of different ways.

My grandmother was a flight attendant; my mother had a pilot's license, and my grandfather was a pilot. That's how my grandmother and grandfather met.

I have to be at work every day at six in the morning and then cover premieres and parties that go late into the night, so a 12-hour workday is the norm.

It is an immeasurable tragedy to spend a sizeable portion of one's waking hours doing a job that does not excite you nor infuse you with a sense of purpose.

I'm an actress but it's not fulfilling me in the way I thought it would.

After law school, I put on my power suit and worked at a series of law firms. By the time I was at my third in six years, it dawned on me that a traditional law job wasn't for me.