Douglas Hodge Quotes

My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.

The whole thing with so many people empathising with 'The Office' has made me aware of how people aren't doing jobs they love, aren't living a life they love. Which I find devastating.

I'm an actress but it's not fulfilling me in the way I thought it would.

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.

I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.

I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.

Today's business climate is not for me.

You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.

There might come a point where I don't want to be in this industry at all.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual

It doesn't matter what I'm doing - I wish it was something else. If I'm producing, I wish I was directing. If I'm directing, I wish I was doing almost anything else!

I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.

Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.