Jehane Noujaim Quotes

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

I had periods when I was out of work, and I still do - I just don't worry about them as much any more.

I never could get a proper job.

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

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.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out.

I'm very good at being out of work.

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

I do panic when I'm out of work, and there have been long periods of that. And I'm not a good auditionee. I talk myself out of jobs in front of the director and suggest other people who would be better.

I was unemployable when I got out of college.

I haven't got a real job.

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.

When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.'

Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless.

I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

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

Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?