Unrewarding Work Quotes

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

Unproductive effort is never a good thing.

Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no one else will read or to solve a problem which no one else thinks important and which will bring no conceivable reward - which may only confirm a general opinion that the researcher is wasting his time on irrelevancies.

I hated modeling.

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.

Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

Any job is a job. If you have to be doing something, then you're probably not enjoying it.

I think acting is overrated. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It's wonderful for some people, but I found it nerve-wracking. I was too busy worrying that no one would give me their words to speak.

People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

When I say, 'doin' it, doin' it, doin' it' to a group of small business owners, they immediately respond. They recognize the experience of doing the same things over and over. Keeping the business afloat without ever getting ahead. And it's more than frustrating - it's heartbreaking.

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.

I give a lot of myself every day. I never get rewards. That's why sometimes, it's tough.

Not all roles you do can be chocolate sweet.