Jeremy Kyle Quotes

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.

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

Losing your job is terrifying, but being prepared makes it so much easier.

I had been laid off from 'Entertainment Weekly 'right before I started writing 'Gone Girl.'

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.

Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.

I'm OK with being the Old Spice Guy because before I was the Old Spice Guy I was the guy looking for work on his couch.

I have called the co-host job at the 'Today Show' my dream job, and I would be lying if I said it was easy to leave that job.

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?

At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business.

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 was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.

So much of my job is about finding another job, and that's really boring.

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?

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.

I'm very good at being out of work.

Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.

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

There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

I started out here in Colorado as a geologist. During a downturn, everyone in our company got laid off.

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

'V' had just been cancelled; I was looking for a job, and the 'Homeland' script came across my desk. I loved it immediately, although I thought it would end up being discovered gradually - a slow-burner, like 'The Wire.'

When you lose your job and it is about football, I can quickly put things in order and move on.