If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession.
I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
Teaching is a truly noble profession. It’s sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They’re not only teaching kids: they’re raising kids, policing kids – and they don’t make a lot of money.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Acting is a psychological profession, and every character drains you emotionally, regardless of whether it is an intense art house movie or a light-hearted commercial series.
You know, my dad wasn’t a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.
It’s a business you go into because you’re an egocentric. It’s a very embarrassing profession.
I was interested in drama, but it never seemed like a real profession somehow. It was so outside my experience, and I probably wouldn’t have had the confidence for drama school, though I did send off for an application form.
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more – even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there’s a gender gap.
Being an actress does not mean that each thing that happens in my life has to be news or meant to be shared with others. Acting is a profession, and once I leave the sets, I want to be left alone.
Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don’t trust or like journalists anymore and that’s sad.
Rap is no longer a pastime; this is a worldwide profession.
A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state and of his city; for being loyal to his family and to his profession or trade; for being loyal to his college or his lodge.
