Ron Funches Quotes

I oppose increased black-lung benefits for miners, because ‘they chose to be miners.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.

When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun.

Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created.

When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

I've worked as grocery store cashier; I've worked at a bank call center and as a Lady Liberty for Liberty Tax Service dancing around with the sign for a while.

The Panama railroad had been built by Americans over a half century ago, with appalling loss of life

I'm not qualified for anything. I've had lots of little jobs, like picking grapes and being a tax man. I can't imagine not writing, because I've done it since I was five or six. Maybe I'd work in academia. That's always what the plan was.

I used to go trick-or-treating all the time. When I was young we had the plastic mask with the rubber band that would cut your face, and you couldn't breathe and it was really sweaty! I had the Incredible Hulk and Spider-Man. I used to love the Incredible Hulk, and then one year I had the great idea to be Mr. T, and that was an awesome costume too.

I worked in a dining hall in college and I worked at UPS for a full three weeks - it was the worst job I ever had.

New Yorkers would be shocked to learn of the conditions some construction workers in our city toil under.

In every job and position, there are valuable lessons to be learned. Even in a nasty, abusive, toxic workplace, you're being taught precisely how not to run an organization.

I've never had staph in my life. Knock on wood, I never will.

Serious concerns about worker safety and fair treatment have been reported at Amazon warehouses. Workers have fallen ill from extreme heat, had to urinate in bottles because they don't have enough time to use facilities, and been unfairly terminated.

I remember standing outside of the dorm by the little terrace. I was going to do this job that I wasn't 100 percent certain of, which ended up being much more fun than I expected [in So Notorious].

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

Interesting thing about being rich is once you pay your taxes, you're still rich.

The [Barack] Obama administration has both their hands in your pocket. They're trying to take every hard dollar you make to give it out in handouts to buy votes.

I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.

I had an outfit that was designed for minus 30 degrees, so I had to work with costume to strap ice packs all over me because I was boiling, even out on the glacier. I was constantly trying to unzip it and take off the hat. I was just sweating. I found it very hot.

There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody - one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.

Whether [people] run their own business, work for a business, go out there, pay their taxes and see the money wasted, fed up with the money going to the next door neighbor sitting permanently on out of work benefits. There needs to be a coalition of change.

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.