Unpredictable Schedules Quotes

Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created.

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules - we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

I toured for 13 years, and it was very lonely, and it was hard work.

Ask any worker at Starbucks, Cosi, McDonald's or Walmart, 'How many jobs do you have?' and likely he or she will tell you: 'Two.' I know colleagues who've had breakfast at one store, and gone to lunch in another, only to find the same person waiting on them.

There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.

Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.

I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones, but it's not like working a 9-5 job and only having two or three weeks off a year. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly.

We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.

The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.

In real life, T. J. Miller is one of my best friends, and I'll maybe see him for two or three days in a row, and then I won't see him for four months. That's just how our lives are.

I've always had service-industry jobs, because those were the easiest to quit or take time off from.

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

I'm definitely sleep deprived - it is so hard to sleep on a tour bus! It moves around so much, and we have really weird time schedules.

Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

With so many part-time people on - and not on - the job, corporate America has started to feel like it's on a permanent maternity leave. Colleagues are an amorphous, free-floating army of rotating waifs whose voicemails are clogged with plaintive requests from their own offices for missing information.