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.
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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.
Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
A lot of times in our jobs, we go day-to-day, we're in a routine, we sometimes become robots.
There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.
I was a bartender at a Pizzeria Uno's for nine years. The people I worked with were amazing, but it was quite possibly the most miserable time of my life.
For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
If there's nothing for me to do as an actress, then that's frustrating. I'd rather go work at a menial labour job, where I can actually get my hands dirty.
The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.
Actors create a fantastic lifestyle thinking they're going to be able to maintain it. Then they can't get work or have to start taking work that doesn't suit them.
Any job is a job. If you have to be doing something, then you're probably not enjoying it.
I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.
I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it's just another job.
I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat.
Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.
