Quotes About Professionalism

A lot of actors just don't seem grown up no matter how old they get... just juveniles with grey hair.

I've been acting for 30 years. It's a grind.

It's a tough grind sometimes. Playing 82 games and the travel, it can wear you down. It's definitely something you have to learn and adjust to. If you don't, you can play your way out of the league very quickly.

I love when I go on set every day, because the camera people teach me camera terms and grip terms - I learn all these new terms from different people on the set and leave feeling all cool about myself when I go out places.

When we had Brian Cox in 'Super Troopers,' we learned that when you put a great actor in the center of our lunacy, it grounds everything.

You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up.

I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

On days when I do not work, I am working on my image. I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.

I've made it a habit not to burn any bridges.

I think it's a bad habit for an actor to change scripts because that's not your job. You're not a writer, necessarily - although there are some actors that are good at it.

The FBI is not in the habit of leaving loose ends. That's not what they do.

The thing about 'Spectre' is that it is not the work of hack writers. It does not have a hack director. The actors are not hams.

I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.

doctors & druggists wash each other's hands

White-collar professionals also use prescription drugs such as Provigil, Ritalin, and Adderall to boost their intelligence and attentiveness.

Pickering : You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well. HIGGINS. Yes: that's what drives me mad: the silly people don't know their own silly business.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an 'appointment') which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?

Our servicemen and women are highly trained, highly skilled, and the most professional fighting force in the world.

It's crazy to be spoken about like Mascherano. He's won everything: Champions League, La Ligas; he's been at World Cups.

Anna Kournikova will always be better paid than Lindsay Davenport. The first left the circuit without having won a single title while the second was world number one.