Constance Wu Quotes

The fear of being laid off next payday did as much damage as real unemployment.

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

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

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?

People are really worried about their jobs. That's what everybody talks to me about today.

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.

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

If I lost my job, I'd get a job at McDonald's.

The experience of seeing your entire team made redundant is eye-opening.

The old economy with careers and benefits and pensions is gone. There are scary implications to that.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.

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

Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

If my results are not good I will lose my job.

I hate being out of work!

No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.

As an actress, you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood.