Quotes About Professionalism

We all know this is a pretty intense business. There's a lot that happens, a lot that goes on here. Just like any other job, you want to be happy, and once you've gained that respect, you want to be treated with that type of respect.

I like the guys on the team and the coaching here. I especially like the management. The Galaxy have been really good to me.

All good professional gamblers are selectively aggressive.

'Game of Thrones' is wonderful. My theory is they employ all these British actors because, one, they are like me and grateful. Two, we turn up, and we know our lines. Three, we don't demand a 60 ft. Winnebago and PA, and four, largely we are very uncomplaining.

This is going to sound like a lie, but the 'Game of Thrones' set is so good to work on. I've been a part of plays and other projects where egos get in the way and there are constant fallings out. There's none of that there.

I am more focused on the games; things like contracts I leave with my agent.

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.

I don't go into my dentist and say, 'Are you gay?' I don't say to contestants on 'So You Think You Can Dance,' 'Are you gay?' What does it got to do with me? What does it got to do with anybody?

I share different relationships with all directors. I share a beautiful working relationship with Anurag Kashyap. Sriram Raghavan is such an inspiration and I have always wanted to work with them. I gel really well with filmmakers like these.

I want to do right, apart from my gender - I want to do right as a campaign manager.

I'm always asked about how women get on in the boardroom and my answer is always, 'Never acknowledge that you are a woman. Your gender is not the point.'

Sangakkara was a force and an absolute gentleman of the game.

I have genuine empathy for the fact that if you're a professional footballer, you've often started at three years old, you've been found, you've been scouted, you play, you play, you play, you make millions, you live this incredible life. And then you reach 35, and suddenly you have to stop doing it, and you haven't been taught anything else.

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

A really good detective never gets married.

I just do the cream-of-the-crop songs in my show. We just bowl them over; they love us. It just keeps getting better.

Part of my job is getting dressed up and having my picture taken and the best way of dealing with that is finding a way of enjoying it.

Some people think it's an easy gig working as an extra, but you often have to stay very concentrated for long stretches in challenging conditions.

The thing is that business and success, and how hard it is, doesn't look any different whether you're playing a gig at eleven o'clock at night or you're going to work at nine in the morning at a law firm.

For us every gig is a responsibility. We don't want people seeing us then saying, 'They're not as good as The Proclaimers.'

You never approach any prof or semi-professional sport as a hit and giggle.

I used to do covers gigs that would be 90 minutes, with a 30 minute break, then another 90.

I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.

I have girlfriends in this business who talk about their personal lives, and it works for them, and I love it. But not for me.