Quotes About Odd Jobs

#1. I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

David Lynch

#2. I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.

John Thaw

#3. When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#4. I went to college in Connecticut, which was when I still lived at home. I worked at a video store, a wine store, and did odd jobs here and there like landscaping.

Christopher Abbott

#5. I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.

Gary Jennings

#6. Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.

Karl Pilkington

#7. I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore.

Luke Perry

#8. I borrowed a lot of money from my parents in the years leading up to the 2000 Olympics, and I worked odd jobs.

Bryan Volpenhein

#9. I was in tailoring business, I sold flowers on the street, I worked construction and many odd jobs.

Manny Pacquiao

#10. I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

Manny Pacquiao

#11. I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.

Paul Dano

#12. I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.

B. D. Wong

#13. I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.

Adam Driver

#14. I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.

Aaron Paul

#15. I had a lot of different jobs between fifteen and nineteen. I'd moved out of my house way, way younger than I should have. So I was living out on my own with my brother when I'd just turned sixteen. I did busboy stuff, and worked in warehouses, and did odd jobs, and stuff. I earned me some Pesos.

Ryan Reynolds

#16. When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

Margaret Laurence

#17. But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Elliott Smith

#18. Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.

Ronan Farrow

#19. What was he? Storyteller and secretary and doer of odd jobs, neither Tizerkane nor delegate, just someone along for the dream.

Laini Taylor

#20. I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain and suffering that I don't want to re-live.

David Boreanaz

#21. I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.

Harmony Korine

#22. I lived by a bay for a while, and I shucked oysters. Some packing things. You know, just whatever odd job you can find whenever you're moving around. I never really cared much for the franchise kind of work, so I'd try to find things that I considered to be a little more honorable.

Frank Fairfield

#23. It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

Moliere

#24. I'm just a regular dude with an odd job.

Pat Barry

#25. All my legitimate jobs were embarrassing. I used to be stock boy at an Odd-Lot, making $35 a day.

Method Man

#26. It might be odd for people to hear this, but honestly, you know, when you're on stage, I don't think people realize how grueling eight shows a week is. And as far as jobs go, being a Broadway actor, it's hard. It's fun, but it's hard.

Will Chase

#27. All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

Catherynne M Valente

#28. I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.

Robert Reed

#29. I was doing bad movies as a day job. And it almost ruined my life for a while. But I have done 130-odd films, and only fourteen have been spooky ones. Im not spooky! I want life!

Karen Black

#30. Republicans are now saying that Dan Rather should lose his job because he misled the country with bogus information. Which is odd because the Democrats are saying the exact same thing about President Bush.

Jay Leno

#31. I have a day job that's very odd. Most people, by the time they're 25, glom onto one kind of music and that's what they listen to for the rest of their lives.

Joseph M. Kahn