Bernard Sumner Quotes

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.

There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences of having these jobs, they'd drop out of the workforce. There are only two problems with this strategy: First, someone has to pay for it; second, it is not the recipe for human fulfillment.

I'm not just going to go back to my bedroom, get a job and 'get real with myself' - come on. I'm already too old, and I'm lucky to have a job at all.

I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.

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

The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment, so they're just happy I'm in work!

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

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

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'm thrilled to get hired every once in a while.

I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.

I think I'm nervous to sign on to any job.

You never can take for granted that you have a job.

I won't give up my day job of design.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

I really wait for the job to come. Whatever job comes up, I just want to keep working. The jobs don't always come, so you take whatever is available and hope it's a good one.

If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.