Professional Discontent Quotes

I felt for a while with the GH appearances, they were kind of using me as a media trick, bringing me on for three or four weeks, saying I was back on the show, but not really writing for me. And then I would be gone. I just didn't like that anymore. I guess it was me putting my foot down.

You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.

When I read 'Ray' for the first time, I had just quit. When I read 'The Last King of Scotland,' I had just quit. I hadn't quite quit when I read 'Scandal,' but I was feeling really unfulfilled as an actor.

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

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

In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.

If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way.

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

Working at a job that you hate. Having a career and a life that you have no passion for. That's hell.

I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Professionally I felt like a horse running in the wrong race.

If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.

I enjoyed it [commercial work] until I stopped. You could travel and get around. I can't really explain why, I just didn't want to do it anymore.

I hated being a lawyer.

Every couple of years - no, that's every couple of weeks - I think I'm going to give up acting.

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

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

The damned everlasting clatter for offices makes me feel like resigning.

I think all actors, when they're not working, say, 'If I can get to this point where I'm working on a consistent basis, I'll be happy.' Of course, then, if that happens for you, and you're lucky, you find some other reason to complain. There's a joke: 'If you want to hear an actor complain, give him a job.'

My beef was with essentially being a product. I didn't want to be a product, so I tried to get fired, but they didn't fire me, which was weird.

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."

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