Ken Loach Quotes

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

I've thought of the independents as a stable industry for a little over two decades, and that's because I stably worked in it, so I've understood it that way.

I can tell you what people on minimum wage want: They want a career. They don't want a minimum wage.

I've always had a proper job. I don't know anything else.

I've never had to get a job as a waiter or anything. I've always been able to support myself in 'the biz.' Which is great. It's really fantastic to be able to say that, because I know it's hard to do.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you can't be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.

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

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

Sometimes I think, 'Oh, I wish I just had a nice job where you're getting a salary.' Just sometimes.

Unlike in Europe, where serving is often a career rather than a backup plan, American table-waiting remains a bootstrap business, and some of the biggest skeptics of waiter training courses and schools are seasoned servers themselves.

As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.

I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.

I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.