James Haskell Quotes

As a player, you're not really in control of your destiny and the way you make a living.

I believe there's a job in the fish factory for me. That's enough to get me through every audition.

I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don't know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

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.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

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

The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It's over. And it may never come again. That's a very scary thought for a lot of people.

If you don't allow yourself to change from book to book - take chances - it turns into a dullish job with no health benefits or pension plan and only intermittent paychecks.

The thing about this business is you have to take the work while you can.

Post-'Daily Show' has been so busy, which I've been surprised about. We're basically independent contractors in a way. So you have one gig, and you're worried about never getting another gig again, or at least I do.

Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'

Even for the people in the bank into which the other banks are merging, they also have a lot of apprehension. There is always an apprehension that opportunities will go down. There are apprehensions of displacement. Many of these apprehensions are unfounded.

The idea that you won't have a job is a real fear that people go through, so when people talk about jobs and say, 'I'm gonna create jobs!' or, 'There's gonna be a loss of jobs,' those are just words. But the reality of someone actually losing their job - I mean, it's their entire life for most people in this country.

Hopefully, comics will be enough to support me after I graduate.

I don't really care about job security.

I had to put in my time all through my 20s. Then I came to CNN in 2008 as a freelancer with no guarantees.

I was a business major at the University of Richmond, and after I graduated, I took a job at a corporate ad agency. I had comedic dreams, but I also had a realistic look at what I had to do when I left school: maybe I'm funny, but maybe I'm one of a hundred thousand funny people, you know?

I'm lucky in that the media is much more freelancey. So I didn't have that pressure that lots of people have if you jump off the ladder, then you get left behind.

I wanted to have something to fall back on. I got my degree in business administration.