Unpleasant Duties Quotes

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

'Never do the dishes without music,' my brother Mark once advised me - the same brother who once ate a spoonful of refrigerated dog food to escape his turn at the kitchen sink. And really, it may be the most sensible advice I've been given.

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.'

But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don’t want to do.

In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn't an ideal world, and it's never going to be.

How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day!

It's a very tough job to host a show and a very tough job to produce a show, and you're in a no-win position.

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

Not all roles you do can be chocolate sweet.