Unfulfilling Work Quotes

Working on films where the money's more important than the creativity, I just get a bit freaked out by that. I just don't feel comfortable.

I've moved laterally, as opposed to vertically. I was never a superstar. I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

I delivered Chinese food on Long island, which is pretty depressing. I lived with my parents and did that for six months. I got a job a few towns over from mine so I wouldn't have to see people from my high school.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

I don't want to do a film where I have a ten minute role.

I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail.

I don't love getting up at the crack of dawn and having makeup put on my face for three hours - like, I really don't like it - and then having a part that's just not that challenging.

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

If you work hard doing the wrong job, is it really work? Or is it some kind of fakery?

Meaningful work is very different than drudgery.

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

A lot of people don't enjoy their jobs, and it's one of the main things we like to complain about.

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

My first TV experience, it was so bad. I just didn't feel a creative atmosphere. I felt like we were just pawns to deliver lines. Everyone was telling me that's just television. I said, 'OK, I'm going to stay far away from television!

I don't wish my career on anyone.

A career is a job that has gone on too long.

I was sleeping on editing room floors for $300 a week.

When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

I loved the travel but I didn't love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!

Homemaking is whatever you make of it. Every day brings satisfaction along with some work which may be frustrating, routine, and unchallenging. But it is the same in the law office, the dispensary, the laboratory, or the store. There is, however, no more important job than homemaking.

That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.

A lot of the auditions in L.A. do feel like cattle calls, with hundreds of people. I started to lose sight of what I wanted, because you get so desperate for a job that you stop caring whether it's a good script. You're just pleased to be testing for something - but then if you get it, you're doing it for potentially six years, so it's a lottery.

Writing screenplays is not my business. I've written half a dozen, and maybe half of those were made. But it was never a satisfying experience. It was just work. You're an employee. You would be told what to do. Studio execs would cross out my dialogue and put in their dialogue.