Quotes About Profession

I would say a full-time waiter in a high-price house could easily make $75,000, $80,000 a year.

I wasn't meant to be a cook. It's a profession I accidentally fell into one summer between college semesters while looking for an easy job as a waiter. Nobody would hire me as a server, but one restaurant, in desperate need of a prep cook, told me that if I could hold a knife, I could have a job.

I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.

I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.

I've never been a waitress, hostess, bartender or any of the typical side jobs you'd expect an actor to have. This is partly because I've always been afraid of dropping plates on customer's heads.

I've never had a terrible job. I've been a cook, waitress, bookseller, teacher, freelance writer. I know what the bad jobs are, and I haven't done them.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.'

It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

What a blessing it is to throw a baseball for a living!

I appreciate what I've been given, and the chance to play tennis for a living is definitely a blessing.

I think that it's such a blessing to be able to act for a living. I can't imagine a better job. I've had a lot of other jobs, and I'm really, really glad that I get to do this one.

My career is doing well both in Tollywood as well as Bollywood.

By training, I'm an engineer, but I don't tell anyone because it bores people.

Both my parents are actors.

If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves.

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

There's not a shot in hell I ever thought I'd be a broadcaster for a living.

In broadcasting, you're pretty much married to your job.

My job, live television, broadcasting, there's mania involved in there, too, but it's the good stuff.

Broadway doesn't pay that much.

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.