Quotes About Profession

If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, you're going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.

I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.

I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people. One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.

I have great emotion every time I go on stage. Nothing in life gives me the same satisfaction that my profession gives me.

I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.

Several of my favorite cousins and some of my best friends are lawyers, and I find the profession endlessly fascinating.

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.

I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself.

This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.

I started doing theatre, and that's when I really fell in love with the profession; I learned a lot. It felt a bit weird to go from living in New York on Broadway to university, so I kept putting it off. Then, eventually, I had to give up the place.

I think it's ridiculous when people say, 'I don't date actors.' It's about the right person, and no matter what that right person does for a profession, they're still going to be the right person.

I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.

I would say that one of the hardest things for an athlete, and really anybody of any profession, is that we create our identity in what we do.

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

We have the opportunity not just to choose our job or profession, but also to choose the sort of life we want to live and the imprint we will leave on others.

When you're young and have the opportunity, it's crucial to learn as much as possible about your profession from every possible angle.

Acting is the most bizarre profession. You can stay in it for years and not really be in it and be waiting for someone to give you an opportunity. It's like when I watch 'American Idol' and see people who have been told to believe in themselves at all costs: It's not always a good idea.

I'm a boring guy who's got a great job in a profession that still gives me a great deal of pleasure after 35 years.

By nature, my default place is a very introverted one, so it's funny to be in such an extroverted profession. I'm a little inappropriately in it.

Showbusiness is such a mad profession, I find commerce a wonderful outlet for keeping me sane.