Quotes About Profession

In my case, the business chose me.

I love just working. I love the idea of being a working class citizen.

Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.

It is great to be married. It's even better when your life partner and the new family are supportive of your profession. I love being married.

In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.

I feel very indebted to my job. I support the loyalty that they've given me - it's very rare, especially in my profession, that you find people who are not just supportive of who you are as a person, but supportive of you finding love and your happiness.

I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.

It's like cooks don't watch cooking programmes - I suppose maybe comedians don't watch comedy shows.

Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.

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

Destiny has put me in the profession that has kept me happy, and where I was supposed to be.

I started doing makeup to make a living. Then I said, You're not supposed to be putting powder on other people. You're supposed to be powdering yourself.

I do not enjoy being away from Richmond, my friends of a lifetime, and my home... I do not enjoy working 6 days a week and almost every night at a time when I had planned to be tapering off. There are compensations which appeal to any lawyer who is proud of his profession. The Supreme Court is an awesome place.

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

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.

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 don't have to talk to a surgeon to play a surgeon, you know what I mean?

My father's a dermatologic surgeon; my brother's a surgeon.

I have one brother who is a surgeon, there's me, and my other brother builds boats.

I'm the son of a surgeon and the grandson of a surgeon.

I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous Cary Grant movies where he's a surgeon, and you never see him in the operating room.

I put in the same hours to get good at this as a surgeon who went to college. It's just a much less important job in the realm of society.

Before I went into the music business I wanted to be a surgeon.

I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.