Yossi Vardi Quotes

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving.

In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

I'd tell any coach not to move for money... Stay at your job if you're really happy.

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

I make a good living doing what I do.

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

My business doesn't keep me warm at night.

I love my job, but it's more than that: I need it.

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

I've always had a day job and never been just acting.

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

I've never understood why you would turn down a great role.

The lack of available, good work inspires a lot of people to be self-creating.

For years, I did whatever I could just to pay the bills and gain experience and work with as many different people as I could.

Can I say this in a humble way - I don't need the money. If I stop coaching today at Kentucky, my toes are up, and I'm eating Cheetos, and I'm fine.

I didn't become an actor for the money, so I can't stay with a job for that reason. I did too many years of theater where you just get by from month to month, happily, to make that a priority.

I don't want to be a guy who's just sitting on the bench stealing money.