Jason Patric Quotes

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.

When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.'

Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless.

You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

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

I was adrift for a while. I worked as a substitute teacher; I sold cars.

I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked.

I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.

I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.

I actually got fired from 'The O.C.'

I'm not just going to go back to my bedroom, get a job and 'get real with myself' - come on. I'm already too old, and I'm lucky to have a job at all.

You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

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.

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you're headed for the unemployment lines. Your market value declines as you age, and it becomes harder and harder to get a job.

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

I'm very, very fortunate to be in the job that I'm in, and I would love for it to continue forever, but it won't. I have to financially and emotionally prepare for the day that 'Mad Men' will go away, because who knows what my next job is going to be?

There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.

If you've been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.