Quotes About Profession

Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.

I believe if you're not completely in love with what you're doing, you'd better find another profession.

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

The profession is rife with fear about your age, about your validly, longevity, appearance. It's vanity, and it's hard to sort of avoid all those things; they come at you as an actor.

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

I've spent my life in the police profession, and I'm proud of that. But I am also very cognizant of the profession's limitations, its potential for abuse, and its potential negative impact.

I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.

To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'

I must confess that Bollywood definitely happened by chance to me, but once it did - I took it up seriously, and made a profession out of it. And it's the best feeling in the world to be enjoying your work and getting paid to do it! It doesn't get better than that.

I'm deeply honored to lead Deloitte. I look forward to collaborating with all our people to continue to lead our profession in quality and innovation. Together, we make an impact that matters every day for our clients, the capital markets, communities, and society.

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

When I started this profession, I wanted to make films that entertain but that have content. When I went to film school, they made me believe that the two could not mix.

There's a lot of insecure, sad people in any profession.

I have chosen music as a profession for myself. I have never felt any kind of burden or pressure on being a part of this industry.

The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.

Separating your profession from friendship is very difficult.

I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That's why someone can have the audacity to invite you to their home or hotel, and you show up.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.

Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired.

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.