Diablo Cody Quotes

I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

If this acting thing doesn't work out, maybe I could be a blogger.

I don't know what my friends do. Generally they become producers. That way they can stop writing!

I love to play strippers and to imitate them. I love using that idea for comedy, but the idea of actually going there? I feel like we all need to be better than that. That industry needs to die, by all of us being a little bit better than that.

Do you work in a strip club?

I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole.

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, after five years, I hadn't had anything published, I was just going to forget it and go back to TV full-time until I retired or they put me out to pasture.

I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.

Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It's just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.

I was a writer before I was a wrestler when I was in the WWE.

I got fired from Neiman Marcus and Bergdorfs, and JC Penney didn't work out.

Nurses don't get paid very much. It didn't take long to realize that I could make more as a writer. I loved nursing, but I loved writing more.

I thought I'd become a welder if my racing career ended.

I've often been told that if music doesn't work out I could be a comedian.

I ended up switching over to journalism in college. A few weeks into freshman year, I realized that business school wasn't for me. And writing stories and reading and talking to people is something that I just enjoy doing, so I figured why not try to build up a post-basketball career with that.

I love playing ball. I love being Sizzle. When the time comes for me to just be a full-time dad, a full-time actor, writer, director, producer, I will do all that.

I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009.

Before I became a parent, I was a bestselling author and speaker pounding up the escalators of a different airport every week.

When I was at school I wanted to be a writer and an actress. Then this whole modelling thing happened.

Initially I took the job because I thought it would be really easy. I was like, I'll take the paycheck because I want to do my own movie. That didn't work out. In the first two weeks I fell in love with Kratos from an animation perspective; I'd never been able to do anything like this.

I lasted seven years as a journalist, and I've been doing comedy for twenty years.

Phoenix Nights' was really starting to take off. But I was scared to leave my job in case things didn't work out.

After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.

I did do a little research. I went to a couple really fantastic strip clubs with really talented dancers, just in terms of their physical prowess. For the scene, there was a whole dance routine that I had to do, so I worked with a pole dance instructor who helped me choreograph a number for that scene. We broke down the principles of pole dancing, for three days, for an hour a day.