My preparation for roles are less about the character’s profession than who they are, what their dreams are, and in what way are they childish.
Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.
Working backstage as a teenager made me realise there’s not much glamour in this profession – just lots of hard work. That’s a good thing to learn early on.
I am a product of nepotism. I don’t think I would have had the profession that I’m in currently… if it wasn’t for my dad.
The fundamental problem for the teaching profession is how undervalued it is and how underpaid teachers are.
When I grew up, my father used to say that cricket is not a profession, cricket cannot bring you food. But I think he lived to see the day when I was actually paid.
I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn’t start acting.
Money isn’t a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.
There’s a lot of things I would definitely go to bat for in Hawaii. I’ve been all over that stuff. If someone told me to be quiet about that because of my profession, no. That’s my people.
I joined a very male-dominated profession back in 1986. I wanted to work with big multinational Fortune 500 companies, but you don’t come into the firm and automatically get those. So, quite frankly, a key to my success was that I found male mentors and male sponsors. I think some women are afraid to say that.
I’m not scared of big stadiums. There are other risks in my profession, and I love taking risks.
Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?
If I feel insecure, then I am in the wrong profession. I have to trust my director and the material he has given me.
I stumbled onto the best profession to heal my childhood: the only one that lets you release and express whatever is ugly and messy and beautiful about your life. We’re in the business of creating human beings. The more we spew, and the more honestly we do it, the better. Try that on Wall Street.
Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a ‘profession.’ There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.
I still make mistakes today – I always explain to people, when you will make as many mistakes as I did, then you will know as much as I know in my profession.
Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you’re like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.
What’s quote-unquote a ‘good’ lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you’re a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image.
My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.
My father is a taxi driver, and my mother ran a small business. I hadn’t even met a barrister before I got my first shot at the legal profession. But back then, I was lucky enough to be given a break – I can’t help but wonder if I would be so lucky today.
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
After college, I became a geologist, mapping what lay beneath the earth’s surface. I thought I had my life pretty figured out and all my boxes checked. But then, I was laid off – along with thousands of other geologists. I lost not only my job, but also my profession.
I used to do some ushering work at the theatre, which was pretty humbling; it made me realise how difficult the profession I’d chosen was going to be.
Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
When I started in the profession, there were very visible actors who were Scottish, Welsh, or regional. Lots of working-class-hero leading actors; it was not fashionable to sound posh. Now, I’m middle-aged; it’s fashionable to sound posh if you are the generation behind me.
I’ve often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I’ve wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was… magic.
I couldn’t have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‘I am deaf.’ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.
Honestly, I feel like inside my soul, I’m very anti-social media to a point where I realized that I need to be active in part because of my profession, but I delete all of the social media apps on my phone daily.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
But the way I look at it is just about every profession in our society: There’s some lasting effects. It’s just the way that our society is set up. People have to work.
The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.
My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.
It’s the people who are more insecure who feel the need to control and micromanage. But that’s true of any profession and hierarchy with a boss. You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job, and then you have the ones that just hover around.
I am thrilled to be joining ‘CBS News’ and to have the opportunity to collaborate with some of our profession’s most talented journalists.
I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn’t the most conventional profession.
Acting is like any other profession. I do not think stars need to have any hang-ups in public. I do not like to be treated like someone special – and this I say because I am normal and not because I want to sound humble.
For a variety of reasons, I have always felt myself an outsider. I don’t know how to classify myself in economics. I am a loner. I do not like groupthink, which, if anything, has become more important in economics. In addition, a lot of the values I hold are not the mainstream values in the profession.
Films were just a profession. The moment I step into the house the actor in me disappears.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
As someone whose profession relies heavily on physical activity, I definitely felt extra pressure to get back to my pre-baby shape.
I don’t act to prove anything to anyone. I like acting. It is the only profession I know.
I’m a little old-school in that I think there’s some value in the classics and the steps of achieving a certain profession. If we start slanging the word ‘chef’ on anybody and everybody who cooks, it takes away a lot.
The biggest concern for most actors has and always will be getting enough work – it’s just part of our profession – but a real change is the idea that performers have to be more versatile and entrepreneurial in their careers.
The notion of ‘history from below’ hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
As a former teacher, it pains me to watch such an essential and rewarding profession suffer due to government neglect.
When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn’t know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I’m fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn’t feel right to me. Until I met Roy.
I’d say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends – architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their ‘architectures’ as well.
You have to have a certain single-mindedness if you want to reach the top of the profession, and I’m not sure if I’ve got that cold-eyed egomania that perhaps is needed to get to the top. So as long as I can keep paying the mortgage and keep myself interested, I’ll be happy.
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
I totally can relate to guys going in for job interviews, and not having a tie, not having a white shirt, and that type of thing to wear. That’s why I think as coaches we can do things to help. We have plenty, we as NBA coaches and players are all very blessed to be in a profession so that we can provide for.
