In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble.
I don't have a show anymore. I don't have a check coming in every week. This is important to me, I got to score a million tonight or it could all be over.
I am very scared of sitting without work.
No, but Liza took went and took away from me, possibly my livelihood.
When Katrina hit, my family lost everything - their homes, jobs, friends - and then it was a ripple effect, as so many others attached to them were affected. I had to come up with $12,000 per month to take care of everyone.
It is actually unbelievable that somebody would be deprived of his livelihood for expressing an opinion that he's entitled to.
Evictions cause job loss. Because it's such a destabilizing, stressful event, they lose their footing in the labor market. It has big impacts on people's health, especially mental health.
If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right out from under your feet.
As entertainers, you're afraid [about] loss of income - but if other people start going to jail for free speech, then we've lost this great thing that America is, and I'd like to keep that.
It's definitely a tough blow to your morale to get fired.
If you take my equipment away from me, I might as well retire.
The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
It's one thing for the industry to lose half its revenue to piracy; it's another to destroy it emotionally.
If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.
By the end of the 50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog and all the westerns.
Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.
Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
The pain of retirement means loss.
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
I'm sick when I don't work for year or two.
Every job lost is a bomb blowing up under a family.
