Alyssa Milano Quotes

I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.

My parents probably were delighted when I chose acting, because if there is one job in the world that is less financially reliable than acting, it is art.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

That's like one of the things - you know, being a writer, it's not just like they're constantly like giving you jobs and shows. There was some lean years, man, and - well, a lean year and a half. 'Woe is me.' Right?

Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It's difficult if you have kids, and it's hard to make money unless you are in the premier league.

I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.

When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down.

Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.

As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job.

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

[Winston] Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable—by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is inconvenient in normal times.

Every job lost is a bomb blowing up under a family.

Professional bums!

There is something wrong when we had more bankruptcies last year than college graduates.