My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when…

I started bartending at a very young age living in New York. Bartending was my survival job.

— Ariana Madix

“A woman who cleaned their homes had such a naturally fine body while they stretched themselves taut with the finest surgeons in South Florida…

— Roxane Gay

My mother cleaned houses. I washed dishes.

— Eric Adams

My mother cleaned hotel rooms and worked in a video store. My father delivered newspapers and washed dishes in restaurants.

— Leana S. Wen

And so when I graduated I moved to New York, and I was waitressing here and auditioning - and I got my first job…

— Piper Perabo

Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created.

— Jennifer Esposito

Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing.

— Woody Allen

What's that comment about every actor being a waiter who is out of a job? I did a lot of waitressing, and I loved…

— Genevieve O'Reilly

I've never had to do anything I didn't believe in. Sometimes that meant being poor and waitressing a while longer, but I've always stuck…

— Linda Kozlowski

Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I've worked every job under the sun, from waitressing in my teens, to clocking hours on a construction site in London (I have degrees…

— Vogue Williams

I think with the people that they talk about who do waitress and who came from a small town and they hit it big,…

— Meagan Good

I've never been the smartest or most qualified for any job I've ever had, and I'm talking waitressing, babysitting, you name it. But I…

— Stephanie Ruhle

You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my…

— Maisie Williams

I love to cook. I'd have a dinner party, and someone would be like, 'Can you do this at my house?' So my catering…

— Meta Golding