Monotonous Task Quotes

It's the actual recording of the vocal that is the most boring thing you'll ever do in your life.

I'm actually very ordinary, except people get to pay their money to come watch me work. The same way that we go to McDonald's.. we don't care about the guy behind the counter, but if he was doing something special, we'd pay our money to go watch him cook that hamburger.

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.

Swimming can be boring. To me, it's like going on a treadmill.

I worked from 8 A.M. to 12 A.M., and sometimes until 2 A.M. There were no shifts, just a few dozen people, and we all polished glass. I didn't enjoy it.

If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.

When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and soul-sucking.

Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

It's not fit work for an adult just dragging idols off the shelf. It's too easy.

It is an immeasurable tragedy to spend a sizeable portion of one's waking hours doing a job that does not excite you nor infuse you with a sense of purpose.

I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.

There's a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there's absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It's maddening! It's fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it's something that's a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.