Unpleasant Task Quotes

Negotiating with Franco is like having your teeth pulled.

I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.

The worst job that I ever did, I used to have a Saturday job cleaning the dough off bread-making machines for Warburtons in Bolton. That was horrendous.

Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

I worked in a petrol station on the A1 one summer. I enjoyed it except when I was on latrine duty.

Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done. And by the time you get it in, it's done and you're sitting there reading it, and you realize the 12,000 things you didn't do. I mean, writing isn't fun. It's never been fun.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

… a distasteful but vital necessity

I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.

They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of a normal day ahead of you, with its scatterings of simple gratifications, you are going to have a day without even the tiniest of pleasures; you are going to drive across Ohio.

Writing is not fun.

Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

Sometimes you have to suck it up and call a number.

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

It's a great sacrifice to do what I'm doing. I'm not having fun at all...What a brutal job!

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

No offense, but I'd rather kiss the horse.