Quotes About Profession

There is no denying that TV pays really well.

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was very clear what I do.

It's not a secret, but if you know what the hell you're doing, you pick good actors. And you know what makes a good actor? A good personality in the performer, in the person.

I think people have a misconception about comedians and performers. All that stuff is serious business.

As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe I was being paid for that.

I am an actress, period.

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.

Fond of doctors, little health, Fond of lawyers, little wealth

Doctors purge the body,ministers the conscience,lawyers the purse.

The lives of doctors, the souls of priests, and the property of lawyers, are in great danger

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

11.13 Vedas specify four classes of people. They have been classified based on their profession rather than on their descent or caste.

We definitely did not write our own vows. We're actors - people write things for us. We're not good enough for that.

Any creative professional lives on high emotions and while others might handle stress of life in a calmer manner, we are sensitive and vulnerable to issues.

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

You just suddenly think that there's something quite childish about acting. Basically, it's pretending, isn't it? It's good fun and I enjoy it, but it's a funny way of making a living, particularly when you make a very good wage, as I've been fortunate enough to do.

Runners are the lowest of the low in film units. They're paid very, very minimal wages - probably below the national average. And runners are now being asked to drive actors about, as well as their runner duties. It's kind of the same as taking advantage of nurses - it's appalling.

In 'Dhil,' my character wants to become a cop, and those who want to become cops have a small waist. In 'Saamy,' where I play a cop, my waist is thicker. Because after you become a cop, that's how you look.

You don't pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait.

Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait a minute - I am one!'

I was a pretty damn good waiter.