Julian Fellowes Quotes

People are really worried about their jobs. That's what everybody talks to me about today.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

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.

No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.

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.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

No one really has any job security anymore, including myself.

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.

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?

The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It's over. And it may never come again. That's a very scary thought for a lot of people.

The fear of being laid off next payday did as much damage as real unemployment.

None of us can promise any of you that what you now do for a living is absolutely safe from now on.

Job loss is coming like a tsunami.

There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

The experience of seeing your entire team made redundant is eye-opening.

I think threat of change is pretty potent. In humans, blood pressure doesn't go up when people get laid off: it goes up when they first hear rumors that layoffs are coming at the end of the month.

I've been doing radio since I was 18, and I've been unemployed four times from radio for various reasons.

The old economy with careers and benefits and pensions is gone. There are scary implications to that.

I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

Anyone with a job wants to hear about how to keep it or get a better one, not what a politician has to offer when workers find themselves with a pink slip.

The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: 'Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don't you realize that?' They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn't want to enter their minds.