Faith Ford Quotes

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.

Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

I feel pretty used by the music industry, in that my contracts are written in such a way that I don't get paid. And that makes me wanna quit working for whoever thinks it is that I work for them. But I've clearly got a job that I can't quit.

The government is a terrible employer, and that goes for national service jobs as well.

Temping is the worst. I would rather starve and be homeless than nanny or temp again.

I don't like working all hours of the night and having an unreliable working pattern.

I spend eight to nine months working abroad and cram in a holiday when I have the odd week off.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

Work has become like prison because of the way we treat it. If you are trapped with people who you do not care for, it feels like a concentration camp.

I worked all the time and when I say that, I mean I would work for three weeks, come home for a month, and work again, but it would have been nice to take long chunks of time off.

First, the media blames us stars for not doing more films. But when we are shooting, you want us to take a break. Not fair!

I experienced a lot of discrimination in the military. One commander told me that if my time of the month got in the way of my job, he would fire me. An instructor in pilot training continually failed me for subjective things, like judgment and situational awareness--I couldn't get him to tell me what I was doing wrong.

The pay in the minor leagues, I think it's terrible, it's disgusting, it's exploitative.

I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends.

Just getting paid for six months out of the year is unacceptable in any kind of job.

You know, all these fancy, detailed diets work only if you are sitting at home doing nothing. If you are working, where is the time to whip up food again and again?

I don't work late into the night.

My holidays are generally impromptu, since a crazy work schedule is bound to eat into a long-planned trip.

I have a crazy work schedule, I don't eat good food, and I often work through nights, but I am just doing what I love.

I'm usually done working by Happy Hour.

I usually have a 13-hour workday. But at times, we get lucky when we wind up in 8 or 10 hours.

We get paid way less than we deserve. We deliver shows and deserve to get paid more. We practically pay to do this. You deserve to get better paid if you sell the fight.

I've had the struggling actor experience. At one point in New York, I was holding four jobs, including bottle service girl, while I was trying to break into acting.