A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
You need to know a lot to become master of your profession.
I wanted a real profession. And I’d always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what’s kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don’t.
I grew up never thinking about acting as a profession because that was what my mum did, and often, you don’t want to be like your parents.
One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
I do not like football. It is just my profession.
It is unrealistic to expect an entire profession to be completely good. There are bound to be some individuals who are stressed, who are unkind, who are a bit rubbish at their job, who are in the wrong career.
I didn’t go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.
I’ve never considered selling anything other than profession, but it’s more than that. It’s one of the highest callings that you can aspire to. Not everyone can do it.
I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I’m good, though I think it’s quite gruelling as a profession.
‘Blanche’ opened a new door for me without really making me more famous. ‘Blanche’ was a risk, but that is the only thing that excites me in this profession. The knowledge that I am an actress who takes risks lifts my soul.
It is great to be married. It’s even better when your life partner and the new family are supportive of your profession. I love being married.
I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever.
For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.
If I am happy in my personal life, I will be happy in my profession.
I walk on the wire; it’s my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.
My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.
I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn’t been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It’s about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.
In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I’m a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.
With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can’t open a film.
The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Youngsters are selecting dance as a profession and are aiming for an aspiring career in the field of dance. I am happy to see that we brought about that change and encouraged young people to opt for dance as their path.
It’s a blessing and a curse. But it’s not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don’t recommend acting at all.
I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
I never had anything planned, like, ‘When I’m 40 I’ll be coaching here.’ A number of people in our profession have done that, but my thing was always, wherever I was coaching, to work hard, do the best you can, and if it happens, it happens.
There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl’s profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn’t.
It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn’t think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it’s very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
If I didn’t work in television or film, if I didn’t have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I’m not a nihilist, I’m an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.
Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one’s career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it’s a joy to go to work every day.
I guess it’s sad that anybody, regardless of profession, that they’re in this country, would take a shot at our military.
To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature… It’s extraordinarily fascinating.
When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn’t what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.
I didn’t want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight. Until my father could get back into his original profession as a government employee, my parents operated a small laundry business in our little town. I became the laundry delivery boy.
Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.
I feel very, very lucky to have been involved with a project that’s gone on as long as ‘The Closer’ has. You really don’t get to do that in this profession.
It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.
Destiny has put me in the profession that has kept me happy, and where I was supposed to be.
For me, being an actress is not just a profession but a profession of faith.
Women, whatever their profession, tend to have a harder time feeling ready for a job, even though in most cases they are more than prepared.
The medical profession is – and knows itself to be – endemically conservative and conformist.
But boxing was my profession. I had to go back the second time because I was broke and I couldn’t just go and get a college degree and earn it. I had too many bills, too many families.
My parents never said to me, ‘Why don’t you go and get a real profession?’ And that really helped.
Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it’s tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don’t forget what it means to be social.
Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.
I guess we’re all lucky to be in this profession where you can be someone else for two or three months on a film shoot. I find it restful. Vachement agreable.
The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
I think becoming an actor because it’s a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it’s plain sailing for hereon in, then you’re kidding yourself.
