Quotes About Profession

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.

It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

I use the word nursing for want of a better.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

J. C. Ryle writes, "The day of judgment will reveal strange things. The hopes of many who were thought great Christians while they lived will be utterly confounded. The rottenness of their religion will be exposed and put to shame before the whole world. It will then be proved that to be saved means something more than 'making a profession.'"9

I always thought having a ring doctor at a boxing match was like having a preacher in a whore house. If a fighter is worried about his health, he's obviously chosen the wrong profession.

Put simply, people tend to do what they know and fail to do that which they have no conception of. In that way, ignorance profoundly channels the course we take in life . . . People fail to reach their potential as professionals, lovers, parents, and people simply because they are not aware of the possible.

99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

It was hard to make a living as an actor in New York if you did not do soap operas or commercials.

I love soccer. That's my passion. That's what I make a living doing.

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.

I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.

In the grand scheme of things, fighting people in the cage is not that big of a deal, I know. It's not a hero profession even though its treated as one. It's not being a soldier or police officer or paramedic of firefighter or anything.

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 football. I love my profession. What I don't like is cases where owners prioritise their interests over the club's. Football can't be solely about profit. Look, no one's stupid: no one wants to lose money but nor should it be about people getting rich off people's dreams.

I've spent so much of my life in what can be quite solitary professions, particularly when you're fronting television programmes. I've been all over the world doing that on my own, to be able to enjoy that in the company of someone you adore makes it five times as good.

Some of my legal colleagues are the most creative people I know!

There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic?