Joan Rivers Quotes

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake.

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

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

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

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 know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.

Losing your job is terrifying, but being prepared makes it so much easier.

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.

We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.

Every actor fears unemployment - even me.

Harvard graduates being laid off. How can that be?