Garth Ennis Quotes

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

It helps if you really enjoy your jobs. If you don't, then just think about the money.

I never wanted to take a job because I needed money, and I never have.

Quite honestly, as long as I am working, can enjoy what I do, get on with it, and put bread on the table, I am really happy.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice - money no object, my mortgage paid off - I'd really just work once or twice a year - but wouldn't everybody! - or at least do a different job sometimes.

The last thing I wanted was a big paycheck but no inspiration or support.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.

I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

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

You want to strike that happy medium: the balance of being able to find creative satisfaction in your profession, be able to afford a roof over your head, but still have the freedom to live a relatively normal life.

I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

I've been lucky. I've never really had a job that I did that I didn't like.

I was teaching, which I didn't love or hate; it was just OK. I was OK with it, and the hours were good for surfing or whatever. All not good reasons to go into teaching.

My life goal is to find a nice balance between working for money and working for fulfillment.