Quotes About Professionalism

I wanted to be respected by filmmakers, and why should they respect me if they saw that my superiors did not treat me with respect.

There's a respect factor in filmmaking, like in sports, where certain things are kept in the locker room.

I've never been linked to a co-star or director, never had drunken stupors or been disrespectful of a producer's position. I don't have parents intruding in filmmaking affairs and so on. I'm a professional and like to look at myself that way.

Share your personality with interviewers, but keep a professional filter safely adhered to it.

My experience in Bollywood has been this: You work hard, you deliver, and nobody finds fault with you.

If I had to say how much I've paid in fines over my career, I'm sure it's over $500,000, going toward $1 million.

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

If I see one of my sales assistants neglecting someone because he doesn't look like a good client, he's fired immediately.

I just go from one movie to the next and try not to get fired.

I've never been fired from an acting job.

Like I always say, the goal every day is not to get fired.

At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.

If the day ever comes when I think something is okay simply because district schools do it, I hope my board fires me.

I want to see the free movement of our ambos being able to get to and from where they need to be, I need our firies out fighting fires, and I need our police out doing their job as well.

I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.

That's what drove me crazy is people would say - even people who would try to be nice would be like, it's not different than when a dad hires his son at a law firm. I said, it's not the same thing. You can't be given an NBA job. I got drafted.

I'm a firm believer in... just because these guys are professional athletes or whatever, everybody's going to have an opinion on something, and not everybody's going to get along. I've had my words with fans on Twitter too.

I'm a firm believer when I'm doing my job to not want anybody around.

My work ethics have been the same whether it's in international cricket, first class, or even club cricket.

What's really important is the people, first of all. I like working with people who are kind, above all else. I don't really want to work with someone who will manipulate me. The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

First of all I'm not a fan of Twitter. Nothing against their program or what they have, but as an athlete I think you need to get off of Twitter.

Well, Margaret Court was the first one, first professional woman - or maybe man - to actually take it into the gyms. She worked out on her body, she was very strong, very fast on the court.