Otis Rush Quotes

I've never, ever had a job that lasted for more than a few months.

I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.

I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.

I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home.

I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work.

Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.

I want a job where I work for eight months, then do nothing for four.

I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a cafe, and I did bike delivery, and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.

Work was always a part of my life.

It feels great to know that more people are finding work and gaining the experience, not to mention self-confidence, that they need.

My relationship with Marvel is that I work for them.

My first job was as a groundskeeper at the local ballpark in the town where I grew up. There was a lot of down time, and I got to drive tractor, so it was pretty good gig. I've also taught creative writing, dabbled in reviewing and journalism, and toiled as a screenwriter.

Nearly all of us work, a lot: many people spend more waking hours working than doing all other things combined. And nearly all of us spend our lifetimes working for someone other than ourselves.

You have a part-time job and that's better to no job at all

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

I've had two jobs my whole life. I worked at FedEx for, like, two days, and I worked at Popeye's for a week. I just needed a check. It was a standard thing for people where I'm from. Well, people from there that did what I did for a living, you know what I'm saying? Go get you a quick check when you mess your money up.

The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

Are you married? What do you do for agravation?

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

John Kricfalusi wanted me to quit the job when he got fired in 1992. But the problem there is that I wasn't his partner. I was a hired gun. And then people badmouth me for 10 years, like a rock in my shoe in that camp. It's a very small but active group of posters, as I've come to find out. But the thing is that I finally got to the point where, "Okay, I get you, I get it you don't like that I did what I did." But the thing was, the whole story was cockeyed. They said I put everybody out of work. No, I didn't. Everybody was going to be out of work if I didn't continue the Ren & Stimpy show.

I'm an actor for hire, and I go do a job.

During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.'