Quotes About Professionalism

On 'Heroes' I got to work with Greg Grunberg all the time and Masi Oka, and they both are just wonderful actors. I don't know - you learn so much by watching people like that, I guess.

I love being on camera. And I love knowing what's going on in the world. Diane Sawyer is my favorite. She never seems to lower herself to get the job done. She just always carries herself well. I really admire her.

I've never hidden my Christianity in Hollywood, and I've been handled respectfully because I handle the issue and other people respectfully.

You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

I'm trying to do my job at a high level and that's it. Everything else can take care of itself.

You don't see too many attacking flair players continuing until their mid-30s at a high level.

I took pride in knowing, 'Hey, my numbers may be down, but football guys know I'm playing at a high level.'

I just want to carry on doing high-quality work.

I want to play as long as possible at the highest level.

At the highest level of your craft, you don't have to play games or make people feel small; you can just embrace.

I played at the highest level throughout my career and I'm happy about that.

For 17 years, I played at the highest level.

I think it's highly unprofessional to not make weight.

Newsrooms are still highly competitive, demanding environments. You have to be robust to hold your own amidst the alpha males and females.

I think it is possible to be friends even if you're competing. You know, there's so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out, and it doesn't work. It only hinders their work.

In any field, people want to work with those who they know and trust. It's the same in the Hindi film industry.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. In much more than nine cases out of ten the only objectively truthful criticism would be "This book is worthless", while the truth about the reviewer's own reaction would probably be "This book does not interest me in any way, and I would not write about it unless I were paid to.

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You're not best friends with someone just because you work with them, but you have to be able to at least work together, or there is no point.

I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'

Actors are actors. They're all buddies. I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone. And the ones you don't get to be friends with, you simply don't work together with them again.

As far as co-parenting is concerned, it is easy. You just have to be mature enough to work together, mature enough to keep your professional and personal life apart.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.