Unconventional Job Quotes

I never thought I'd ever do a pirate bar, to be honest with you.

I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'

I did not go into comedy to escape anything. I went into comedy because I had parents who thought it was a reputable way to earn a living.

I don't have a normal job, so I don't consider retiring.

When I read the scene where I'm actually chainsawing my way out of the belly of a shark, how could a guy turn that down when that's in the job description?

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was working for an advertising agency, and I turned up to one of his company's parties dressed as an alien to collect tickets on the door.

I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.

I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.

It's a really unique job that is a little schizophrenic and you have to kind of do it with a sense of humor.The trick is figuring out what each job is asking of you and what it's not asking of you.

I always say 'Knocked Up' opened the doors, and 'Hangover' just burst it wide open. To this day, it's still surreal. And my wife's a doctor. All our friends are doctors - our close friends. And it's just that I have an odd job now. I think I'm like a doctor who had a detour, and I just have an odd job.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

I've never really had a real job. When I was young doing stand-up, I'd get 50 bucks a week here or 100 bucks a week there. You know, sometimes for headlining one of the rooms, or MC-ing, or something like that. So yeah, I've never had like a normal job.

I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.

So now I'm 'the hot dog guy,' which isn't bad. I take it in stride. It's not like it was my goal in life. I'm having fun with it.

When your dad makes a living as a children's singer, you figure, 'I can do anything.' He made up his own job and did it.

I've crafted a really weird career for myself.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.

Itd be cool to carry on doing films, but when I was a kid I wanted to be an ice cream man.

It's a little daunting to know you're going to take off your clothes and 16 million people are going to see it. It's not a normal day at the office.

I have the weirdest job. The hair and makeup people were talking the other day about how weird their job is. And costumes, they have to be in people's faces and have to reach in their skirts to pull their shirts down and stuff. I was like, "You guys, I meet someone, I shake their hand, and then I kiss them. And sober. During midday. For money."

In the next life what would my career be? Oh, easy. Dried persimmon dealer.

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.

I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.