Ron Perlman Quotes

90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare.

Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.

I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.

The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.

I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.

Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.

A guy who hates his job isn't going to be too charming at home.

I just feel like why spend all my time doing something that makes me unhappy just to spend my time off thinking about how I have to go back to a job. It's such a vicious cycle that people get stuck in. But I'm also very lucky. I can't sit here too eagerly and say all that.

A lot of times, kids go to college and take a major because they do what they think they're supposed to do. I told them I believe 90 percent of America gets up in the morning and drives to a job they hate. That could have happened to me in the hotel industry.

I think a lot of business students chase money and then they burn out. They have early retirements, not because they want to retire and chill... But because they hate their job and they are miserable. I don't chase money.

Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you're not creative with and you're not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.

No scratch the word "career". Careers are people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. This is merely a job. I can take or leave this place. I start to imagine quitting and following my yet-to-be-determined passion.

Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.

If you are 8 hours a day in a job you hate, you're not going to be a very good spouse; it can contribute to chemical dependency, financial mismanagement.

I think a lot of people, they don't love their jobs but they don't hate them enough to quit. So they're like, "Eh."

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the syndrome, doing a normal job.

When you find your authentic self, your identity - your true identity - how many people work a job they hate or live a life, they're going oh my gosh.

Intellectually, I loved my job, but I didn't get any meaning from it.

Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.

It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.