Profession Quotes

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession.

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

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.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.