Radha Mitchell Quotes

I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

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'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

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

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

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

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

Professional bums!

When I think about being out of the business, it scares me.

For the first time in my life I found myself without an office, without a party and without an appendix.

Unemployment is painful.

We have caused them to be barren and unemployed though each of them had been working and qualified in a trade from which he could make a living.

it seems to me absolutely scandalous to try to set wage levels which wipe out jobs. I mean these are people who are not on the dole. They want to work and if you price them out of the market, its gonna be a lot worse for them and for the economy.

Job loss is coming like a tsunami.

Before 'Homeland,' I had £80 in the bank and no idea what I was going to do. I seriously considered giving it all up and getting a job as a lorry driver.

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

When you haven't got a job, a joke is about the only thing that's free.

I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.

I don't want to be doing a job where I'm not doing a job, just sitting around in my flat just bored.

Having no work would be terrible.