I had agents in Australia; I just never had any auditions. And if you can’t audition, then you can’t work. I studied there. I did classes there. I learned how to act. Growing up there, I discovered my love for acting, but I just wasn’t getting the opportunities to work professionally.
In September of 2015, I did the unthinkable: I used my second-ever runway show to bring awareness to the Black Lives Matter movement. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do professionally. It was lonely.
I just loved going fast. I still enjoy go-karting. I was also good at rugby, and my dad wanted me to be a sportsman, but I never thought I could do sports professionally.
I realize that everyone has their own road to travel in making this decision about when it’s right to come out. I know that in my case, the worst fears never materialized. All in all, professionally, I know the work I do here every day is better because I’m honest about who I am.
I think the quicker we tell young girls who dream of playing professionally that they should believe in themselves, the more prepared they will be for the world of pro sport.
I have had a holiday, and I’d like to take it up professionally.
Actresses are just professionally lovely, aren’t they?
For me, Sundance always felt big. It’s not the only way to make your way, but for me, it was definitely that critical link between struggling artist, kind of working on my own, to actually working professionally and being connected and being seen.
I’ve been playing music professionally, full time since 1980 when I graduated college at the age of 22.
I’d got a part in the original cast of ‘Cats’ when I was 16, and that kept me going for a while. After that, I felt lost, both personally and professionally – I was trying to find a way not to be seen only as this bubbly, bright, vivacious person. It felt like I’d lost the freedom to make mistakes.
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I had a plan. I played football professionally but I also studied at university.
I have good memories of Real Madrid. Professionally, it was a difficult period, but my experience there was very good in all senses, as I grew a lot, learned many things, and lived with great champions.
A Tagore surname signifies an association with aesthetics and all the best things of life. It’s enriching both personally and professionally.
The way I learnt to play was to go out there and enjoy myself. I never thought I’d play professionally.
Shooting is an amateur sport, but everybody does it professionally.
I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn’t have any time to work things out. It’s been pretty scary at times.
It’s really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She’s an amazing actress, but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don’t want that to happen to me.
Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.
My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We’ve all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it’s what I do professionally.
When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around – it was all very organic.
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Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
When I got that role of Mateo in ‘Superstore,’ it was such a huge victory for me, professionally and personally.
I would go to a team where I always felt happy – as a person, as a human being and as a family, because there I will be professionally better.
As long as I do a good job and do it professionally and people see the quality, and see who I really am, then I think that’s all you can do in football.
There’s been times when it has been tough professionally.
I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.
I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
I mean, I’ve acted professionally since I was 16.
I built a supply chain of 400,000 people in China to play games professionally to mine digital currency.
When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn’t. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.
As far as chemistry is concerned, the audience is the best judge. Professionally, I am supposed to look as convincing as possible opposite my hero.
Music composition was a creative call for me, and it gives me a kick. But I never thought that I would ever sing professionally, even though I used to sing a lot.
Being a part of ‘Chasing Life’ has been the greatest thing I’ve done, both personally and professionally.
Punjabi is a growing industry and we need to be more professionally aligned with other industries.
I think professionally I admire people and the way they’ve handled their careers and being in the media. But the people that I used to inspire me and keep me going were my peers in Toronto – I would see the same girls going to audition after audition, and their resilience to do it again, and I found that inspiring.
I’ve always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.
My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.
I had done quite a bit of stage when I was younger, local stuff, musicals. Then I started professionally, I suppose, when I was 11, in London, in the West End, which was already huge for me.
I’m very happy with where I arrived, both personally and professionally. I can say more so personally, because my career will have to end eventually. I do not know how long it will be, but eventually it will end, and the personal will continue.
There is nothing I’ve been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened – personally and professionally – I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.
I remember when I used to go to York Hall and just watch, and I’d be like ‘how are these people doing it.’ Even though I was an amateur boxer at the time, I was like ‘how are these guys fighting professionally in this arena?’
Professionally, my first book came out at the age of 29, where I wrote about my experiences of backpacking in U.S. on a frugal budget.
