Richard Armitage Quotes

I don't like having a teaching job - office hours and conferences and committees and bosses and all that - but I tend to enjoy teaching, and I design the course in such a way that there'll be pleasure in that.

The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.

My career is my whole life, so if I'm not happy with that, it affects everything else.

Sometimes I fall out of love with what I'm doing, but only for about a week. Once it's over I'm back to thinking it's the best job in the world again. But every job has it's ups and downs.

I like producing, but I don't love it. I love acting. I got into producing because I had a bad time in 1989 when no work was coming in.

Of course I think everybody has moments in their careers when they're frustrated, or you're not happy with the current situation.

If you don't like what you're doing, get out.

Whatever I do, no matter it's for television, web or the big screen - it should satisfy me as an actor.

I don't enjoy my work and don't get creative satisfaction if I do just one project and stick to it for years.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?

The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.

I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.

People talk to you and they try to convince you that they like what they do just because it sucks less than what they used to do... which sucked a lot.

I think a lot of people, they don't love their jobs but they don't hate them enough to quit. So they're like, "Eh."

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

Even the worst job has its benefits and so does being a professional literary agent, and - I know I said this at the time but I still believe it - the worst job is the one that you know is wrong for you, but you still do it. You're afraid to quit.

If you're not interested in your work, you're not doing it right.

My greatest sense comes from the experience of performing in the movie. When I have a great experience, that becomes a perfect movie. If it makes a nickel, it's still perfect. The same is true with a movie that's a bad experience. If it makes a bejillion dollars, I will hate it till the end of time.

Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.

I'm getting paid to tour and travel and I don't have to work a shitty job. And it's weird because you like start getting pissed off about that.

I like what I do for a living. I also like NOT doing it--perhaps even more.

I've always enjoyed acting, but there's a part of me that's shied away from living a celebrity life. I don't feel comfortable being noticed all the time. Sometimes I even fantasize about doing things other than acting. But I can remember being back on set the third day of my latest project and going, "Ahh, this is what I have to do for a living." It's what makes me happy.

The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America.

I suspect the fault...is in me: that I hate any job on earth, as a job and a hindrance and a semi-suicide.