Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

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.

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

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

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land their dream job. I turned down an offer to take a high-paying position in another field because it wouldn't fulfill me.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

I need my career. That's what validates me.

I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.

I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.

Being able to hear someone say, 'I found an incredible job on The Muse,' or 'It gave me courage to make a career change,' that's the motivating factor.

I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.

I still dream about 'New York' mag. It's kind of weird. I dream I'm part-time, and they can't find a full-time job for me. It's usually that I can't find a lead, and I call all my great sources and say, 'Can you help me out?'

I never expected that I'd be doing as many jobs as I did. I know everybody says that, but I thought I'd be sat in my pants waiting for someone to ring me. Then maybe within five years I might get something.

The industry is big, and if I get an interesting role, I will take it up.

I have no desire to switch companies or go to UFC or anything like that.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

I never could get a proper job.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

I haven't got a real job.

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

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.