Quotes About Profession

Essentially, I am an actor for hire. I am not a rarified creature. I do all these different things, and they all interest me.

I tried to play anything people would hire me to play, because I was a musician.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, just keep hiring me.

I love writing and making films. What started as a hobby ultimately turned into my profession.

Directing films is my passion and hobby and I'm blessed to have that as my profession and to be loved by the audience for it.

I love being an actor. So, when I am the baddie on screen, I am just doing my job and I am doing it with love and honesty.

A little secret about actors is that we never think we do a great job in auditions. We kind of just go in and do our work and leave sort of hoping for the best. It's an interesting dynamic - acting is such an interesting job. You never quite know how well you do.

I wanted to be a hostage negotiator.

If I was not an actor, I would have been working in a five star hotel as a chef.

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

I really admire medical people. They have a great sense of humour, and they just have to get on with it.

All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.

Pollock delighted in underhand work – it was not so different from being a lawyer

Não sou do tipo de repórter que se delicia ao entrar na intimidade das pessoas. Provavelmente é por isso que sou uma jornalista de segunda. Uma delas, pelo menos.

I'm not one of those reporters who relishes picking through people's privacy. It's probably the reason I'm a second-rate journalist.

Una mujer, para que se la reconozca como escritora, pintora, investigadora o lo que sea, tiene que hacer veinte veces más que un hombre, tiene que ser una fuera de serie. No hay apenas mujeres reconocidas en ninguna profesión, pero el mundo está lleno de célebres hombres mediocres.

In the act of creation there is always, it seems, an awful selfishness. So Dickens's wife and mistress had to suffer so that dickens could make his novels and his fortune. At least a bank manager's money is not so tainted by egotism. Mine was not a destructive profession. A bank manager doesn't leave a trail of the martyred behind him.

Dr Hasselbacher never talked in terms of morality; it was outside the province of a doctor.

Not all lawyers are annoying. Some are dead.

Good doctors have at least three things in common: they know how to observe, they know how to listen, and they're very tired.

Rap is no longer a pastime; this is a worldwide profession.

Perhaps if I was in a different profession, I wouldn't have worn 'trans' on my forehead. But there's a difference between not wanting to make a big deal out of something and fearing the effect it will have on my life.