Unemployment Stigma Quotes

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

When you look at pictures of me, the longer my hair is, the longer my facial hair is, that's just the longer I haven't gotten a job.

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.

How am I supposed to pay my bills? I can't get a regular job because I have been accused of being a Nazi. Am I supposed to be homeless?

In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves.