Monotonous Work Quotes

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

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.

...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to clean the windows on envelopes.

I had been on the TV show 'Eight is Enough' for four years. Working on a show like that is like working in a factory.

Throughout my time working in restaurants, I developed an illogical dread of some basic kitchen tasks. None of them - picking and chopping parsley, peeling and mincing garlic, browning pans of ground meat - were particularly difficult. But at the scale required in a professional kitchen, they felt Sisyphean.

When you're doing something every week, it's kind of routine.

I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.

One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.

If I had to work a 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. job in the public service, I'd freak out.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

Who needs one more chef in one more building with four walls and a kitchen?

I cannot see myself sitting at a desk from nine to five!

I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.