Career Dissatisfaction Quotes

I have no real ambition or strategy. If this was all to finish, it's totally fine. There's a lot more to do out there than put on silly frocks and shout for a living. I could always go back to, 'Would you like soup with that?'

I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to. '

I'm always feeling like I have to do some bad action movie for money.

The first time in my career I thought it makes no sense anymore, that I'll retire.

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.

I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

A job is a short term solution to a long term problem

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made that much as a waiter or an insurance salesman. You know, I spent so many years in my 20's making $10,000 a year.

There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.

I felt for a while with the GH appearances, they were kind of using me as a media trick, bringing me on for three or four weeks, saying I was back on the show, but not really writing for me. And then I would be gone. I just didn't like that anymore. I guess it was me putting my foot down.

At one point you think, well, it's funny, I could just be a starving actor... So if somebody were to pull the plug right now, there'd be no room for complaint.

My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.

I think one of the things that happened to me in the last couple of years in the WWE where I realized how unhappy I was in that environment, was that I realized that I needed variety and balance in my life.

I don't care if I don't act anymore.

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.

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 really didn't feel that my motion picture career was going the way I wanted it to go.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.'

I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.