Diego Simeone Quotes

As a head coach, you're on two lists. You're the guy that might get fired, or you're the guy who might go somewhere.

Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.

You can get fired from any job at any time.

I want to be a manager, it wouldn't scare me, but I also think you could be sacked in six months and you'd have to take the kids back to school with your tail between your legs.

I learnt a salutary lesson when I was being hired for the 'Six O'Clock News' and others were being fired, people who I thought were great, like Jill Dando. Letting her go was a big mistake, in my view. But that is probably going to be me one day - I'll read about it in the press and that will be that.

Every single year I was on the block - could be cut, could be released.

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

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

Every actor fears unemployment - even me.

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

I think that people are so insecure in their jobs, they're so uncertain that the people they work for really care about them, they're so uncertain about what their kids are looking at in the future, that people are reluctant to take any risks for change.

People who work for the Donald Trump admonistration do not know from day to day whether there job is there or what it is.

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.

This business is so unstable, and you never really know where you're going to be.

Post-'Daily Show' has been so busy, which I've been surprised about. We're basically independent contractors in a way. So you have one gig, and you're worried about never getting another gig again, or at least I do.

This is the weirdest industry. When you have a job, you can't fall into the pitfalls of thinking you're secure. If it's not a firing, it's a strike.

Every season, I'm like, 'Who knows if I'm going to get another job?'

I think about work all the time. I was in my bathroom yesterday and thought, 'I could never work again.' I don't have a job lined up right now - what if I never get another one?

I always say, even in this industry that I'm in - I'm on a show today, but the show could get cancelled.

I was at the mercy of somebody else to just give me a job in the years after 'Boy Meets World' ended, whereas if I had gone to college and had when a Plan B, and it was something else that I loved, I could've walked away at any point.

I'm very aware of how quickly my career could end.

Your job is never secure as a football player - or coach.

I'm always hesitant to make any serious moves because you never know how the N.F.L. will treat you, you know?

When you work in television, working for a big corporation, no matter who you are, you can always get cancelled. That sucks. Do you really want to work with an axe over your head for the rest of your life? Not me, not really, and not if you don't have to.

I was probably scarred by getting the sack at Middlesbrough.