Profession Quotes

If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

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.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

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.

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

I eventually thought, this is the only thing I could do as a profession, I can't really do anything else.

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.

They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

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.