Dorothy Parker Quotes

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.

I never went too long without a job. The problem was a lot of the early jobs are almost more demoralizing than unemployment.

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore

If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.

I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job.

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

I wanted to quit Nichia. I didn't care about anything. It was OK for them to fire me. I was not afraid of anything.

So much of my job is about finding another job, and that's really boring.

You can take my job any time you’re ready.

Well, any time they would like to take over this job, they can have it.

I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.

My career, it's been a mess.

I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere, which was part of the reason I was homeless. I couldn't get a job pumping gas. I couldn't get a job working at a warehouse, I couldn't get a job at Baskin Robbins, I couldn't get a job anywhere.

It's even more of a torture not to work than to work.

I never wanted to be a reporter. I took a job at the New York Post as a clerk because I couldn't get a job in magazines, which is what I really wanted to do.

I don't like not having a job. Especially when I started Mixed Martial Arts, this was all I could do.

Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.

Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply throw up your job, spit on your hands, and write another "Rosenkavailer."

I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don't pick up a book are engaged with what I'm writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I've done my job.

I can't get a job, I can't get arrested.

I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted houses, I sold vacuum cleaners. But there was always a voice saying, You should be doing something different. And it was usually my boss and I was being fired.

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.