Benjamin Walker Quotes

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

Nowadays, there's no such thing as a stable job.

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.

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

We don't live in a world where any job lasts forever.

I don't really care about job security.

Well, I don't have much job security.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

I always figured that I was one new editor away from unemployment.

I always know I'm going to lose my job. It's either going to be canceled next week or next year or nine years from now, but I always know my job is going to go.

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

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.

Even for the people in the bank into which the other banks are merging, they also have a lot of apprehension. There is always an apprehension that opportunities will go down. There are apprehensions of displacement. Many of these apprehensions are unfounded.

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

The idea that you won't have a job is a real fear that people go through, so when people talk about jobs and say, 'I'm gonna create jobs!' or, 'There's gonna be a loss of jobs,' those are just words. But the reality of someone actually losing their job - I mean, it's their entire life for most people in this country.

I've been saying this for years: There is no longer such a thing as a safe and secure job.

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

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

If my results are not good I will lose my job.