Unwanted Task Quotes

It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.

I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

'Say Her Name' was a book I never wanted to write and never expected to write. I wasn't trying to do anything except write a book for Aura - a book that I thought I had to write.

And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high stakes? That just blows my mind.

The worst job I ever had was when I had to try to sell a service for medical waste treatment.

Design job fell on me. I didn't want to do it. It was an accident. For the first 10 years I said, "Tomorrow I'm stopping."

The motorcycle was the thing I really didn't want to do... 'You're going to be raped, be naked...' but as soon as he was like, 'You're going to have to ride a motorcycle,' I was like, 'Oh, really?'

You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.

I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'

Angela had done a marvelous job, I tell you. The puke was everywhere except the toilet. The walls, the floor, the sinks - even on the ceiling, though don't ask me how she did that. So there I was, perched on all fours, cleaning up the puke at the homecoming dance in my best blue suit, which was exactly what I had wanted to avoid in the first place. And Jamie, my date, was on all fours, too, doing exactly the same thing.

If I'm on set and there's no other option, I get on a treadmill, but that's my most hated thing.

I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.