Wentworth Miller Quotes

I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

I was a host and a busboy and a barback.

I don't use deodorant. If you drink enough water, you shouldn't have to. I think I smell pretty good without it.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.

I've been in the service industry. I've bar-tended. I've waited tables, and I've worked at pizza places; I've made pizza. I've had a lot of jobs, and many of them were in the food service industry.

I never was a caterer, but I did deliver pizzas.

I started at Nottingham Forest cleaning toilets and scrubbing the shower floors.

I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.

I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.

From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We weren't growing grapes, but we were farming crops, creating something good out of the earth.

I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

Unfortunately, I'm not 185 and 6-3 and can run and catch fade routes all game. I do the dirty work. I'm all good. I'm thankful for it. Somebody's got to do it.

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little.

Somebody asked me - you know, how come it took you so long to win a national championship? And I said, 'I'm a slow learner; but you notice when I learn something, I have it down pretty good.'

I had rather tug at the oar than to occupy such a place.

I'm just a senior ditch digger.

Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston - a lot of people have studied with me. It's paying my dues.

I started waiting tables in college and realized how much I loved the business and loved to cook. I decided to go to culinary school and never looked back.

No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.

I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library.

I'm an active participation guy. No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.