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I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

I always figured that I was one new editor away from unemployment.

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself I'd write every day from 9 to 5. I tried to make the most out of every situation that came along.

I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.

Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself I'd write every day from 9 to 5.

I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean?

We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that's an area we've got to keep pressing on.

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it.