This collection holds 139 day job quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Seth Grahame-Smith and Diana Taylor.

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Hollywood is my day job.

My day job is making TV shows.

You should never quit your day job.

I won't give up my day job of design.

I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.

I've started calling fashion my day job.

Put it this way: singing is not my day job.

The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.

I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.

I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

I've never had a day job. I've been very fortunate.

I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.

I've always had a day job and never been just acting.

I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

My focus is 100 percent on my day job, on the state of Arizona.

My day job is working on Roman history and ancient Roman history.

I wanna be a manager, because that's my day job. It's my real job.

I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.

I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.

Doing radio commercials was how I was really able to leave my day job.

I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.

In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.

I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.

I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.

I was working in a day job in marketing but I had my sights on doing an open-mic night.

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.

Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too.

My dream of dreams is to write Broadway musicals. All of this Twitter and TV writing is just a day job.

Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.

I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too.

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

I have a day job where I make money and satisfy my self-esteem. Writing is for fun, and I want to keep it that way.

I'm not nervous coming back to my old audience. I'm looking forward to it. That's really what I do; that's my day job.

I have a day job, which means my family isn't dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.

I am very lucky that I get to go to work and laugh all day for my day job, and then go home and torture my artistic self.

I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.

This is no ordinary nine to five day job and I have a 24/7 in terms of my boxing and my career as a professional sportsman.

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe.

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.

If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.

I never wanted to be an actor, and then 'GH' was the first time where my managers were like, 'Quit your day job. You got a thing.'

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