Rachel Kushner Quotes

A while ago I said that, 'You know, I like a guy - he doesn't have to be all rich and famous - he can be normal.' And I remember I was walking in the mall, and this guy was like, 'Tyra, I'm normal. I live with my mama. I ain't got a car and I ain't got a job! I'm real normal.' And I'm like, 'That's not normal - that's a loser!'

It's even more of a torture not to work than to work.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

I don't need to work.

I really do not like more than a week or two of down time.

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.

Because I'm a sweet, kind guy, everybody thinks I'm an idiot, I'm weak.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.

The unemployed want to work. They are not chiselers.

I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.

Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I can't do as well as everyone else. It's just a factor. It's just there.

Another reason I did not make films is that I liked being unemployed, since that is when I read, study and write.

I don't understand the joy of sitting in my house with nothing to do.

I don't like not working.

I am actually a perfectly capable modern man who can cook, clean, wash, and find my way to places, but nobody believes it.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.

I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.