Paddy McGuinness Quotes

I abhor this dirty work but when one is employed to sweep chimneys, one must black one’s fingers.

I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.

Initially, I used to cart coke from the West Melbourne Gasworks -12 tonne a day, 150-pound sacks. I'd come home looking like Al Jolson at the end of the day - white teeth, black face... A good hard day's work.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.

When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.

I started at Nottingham Forest cleaning toilets and scrubbing the shower floors.

I worked in a watercress bed, picking weeds out of watercress when I was at school. It was awful.

Cleaning out your locker the first week of January is not a whole lot of fun and it always leaves a lousy taste in your mouth.

When I left school I went to college and then I remember doing three weeks labouring for someone and it was the worst three weeks of my life.

When you are cleaning, sweeping, swabbing floors and running around for the littlest of things on a shoot for an ad or a documentary, you realize how tough life is behind the camera.

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

It's a great sacrifice to do what I'm doing. I'm not having fun at all...What a brutal job!

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.