Quotes About Profession

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

Fiftyish, with a thickening waist and thinning blond hair, he had the weary look of a man who'd seen more death than he had bargained for when the romance of the healer's profession had long ago lured him into medical school.

Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.

I love just being an actor. I love writing, but I'm not a writer. I have no aspirations to direct.

People assume that acting is an easy job. When you actually do it, you know how hard that is.

Given how shy I was as a kid, the young me would be astonished to discover that I've made a career out of acting.

My father was an attorney.

My father was an attorney in the state of New York, which is where I came up with the term 'advocate.'

I'll trust an attorney before I'll trust a doctor.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.

I'm in control of things happening in my aviation career. And I'm not in my acting career.

My father was a doctor.

You just can't take the doctor out of you.

Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

My father and mother were both doctors, yes.

Doctors are very popular with women.

The education of doctors is a major issue that needs to be addressed.

I was a documentary film-maker for 26 years before I became a full time actor.

If I call myself an actor, it sounds like I'm trying to pass myself off as someone who went to drama school.

I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

I just love that I get to play dress-up for a living.

I was an actor in New York, dude.

Everyone has to earn their money one way or the other.