Michael Moore Quotes

The McJob tag is misleading, and demeaning to our staff and franchisees.

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.

When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you can't be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.

I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

'Uncharted' is the best job I've ever had. Film, television, whatever - it's without doubt the best. It's changed my life.

When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn't fun. I didn't love working in a supermarket; it wasn't for me. It is for some people, and that's totally cool.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

I'm a big believer that when we put so much into our jobs - and everyone does - you deserve to be get paid for it instead of doing a gig and then having to work in a bar for eight hours.

Full employment means not only jobs--but productive jobs. Americans do not regard jobs that pay substandard wages as productive jobs.

What Is a Good Job? It is a job for which the worker is qualified and for which he has been prepared. It is one which will not enslave him for life, but which shall employ him for as long a time as he needs it in order to win his own economic safety for life. It is one which will reward him lavishly — not in wages or in any form of money payments since money is far too unstable a medium for such purposes — but it shall reward him with due amounts of the actual things and services which he requires in the carrying on of his daily existence.

I've always worked in cinemas or cafes to make money because it turns out freelance journalism is quite hard to get into.

I always say my first job is my building trade. The rest comes and goes.

I can tell you what people on minimum wage want: They want a career. They don't want a minimum wage.

Well, for me the canning factory was minimum wage, which at the time I believe was $3.40 or something. I was just happy to have a job.

Any job is wonderful.

Instead of focusing on this sort of defeatist mentality where we've gotta up the minimum wage, why don't we focus on creating better-paying jobs?

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

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

I guess I've never really wanted to be anything else. I've never even thought about having another job.

I think I have one of the best jobs.

I don't know if many people know that one of the first jobs that I wanted and I lined up for was cabin crew at Jet. I was rejected because I was told I don't have a good personality. Thank God for your rejection. After that, I got a job at McDonald's, and the rest is history.

No disrespect to Cardiff but they probably needed me more than I needed them, when I was appointed.

My job is so wonderful.