Profession Quotes

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.

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.

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.

People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

For so many years fashion was shrouded in mystery, this glamorous profession that people knew very little about, they thought it was so glamorous. It now has become so available, with the Internet, with shops like H&M and Target that do designer collaborations, so it's more available to everyone and that's created more interest.

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.