Morena Baccarin Quotes

Getting fired is hard.

In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.

I actually got fired from 'The O.C.'

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

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.

When 'MADtv' got cancelled, I didn't work at all - for three years.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.

You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

I don't know why it was canceled, but 'Mancuso, FBI,' it should have had a good long run, but it wasn't picked up. Maybe there was a problem with me. I have no idea.

I'm OK with being the Old Spice Guy because before I was the Old Spice Guy I was the guy looking for work on his couch.

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.

So much of my job is about finding another job, and that's really boring.

When 'Foyle's War' ended in 2010 after seven series, I was sad but not despondent. After all, ITV had already axed the show once in 2007, then brought it back due to public demand.

I had been laid off from 'Entertainment Weekly 'right before I started writing 'Gone Girl.'

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

I started out here in Colorado as a geologist. During a downturn, everyone in our company got laid off.

I was adrift for a while. I worked as a substitute teacher; I sold cars.

I thought 'Deliverance' was a very good film. But it didn't have the success financially that 'Smokey and the Bandit' did, although that film made more money than 'Star Wars' in the first week.

I got fired from Neiman Marcus and Bergdorfs, and JC Penney didn't work out.

I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked.

If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.

Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.