Quotes About Professionalism

I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this... to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.

The kind of work I do, there's usually a lot of money on the line; there are jobs on the line. It's not a world that lends itself to everyone being friendly all the time. We're certainly not sitting around holding hands singing 'Kumbaya.'

Sergio Ramos looks great to me. He always looks after himself, and he's coming back in the shape you'd expect. He doesn't let himself go when he's away on holiday.

During the holidays, professional players would come and say hello to us in the academy and that really made you want to be a professional. When you saw what great conditions they lived in, it gave you even more desire.

When you leave a big club and go on loan to a small club in Holland it is not easy. But I am a footballer and I have to be professional about my job.

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

As much as I'd only like to concentrate on the creative side of acting, the whole business in general is just that - a business - and you have to do your homework if you want to be successful.

I have never done homework and have always left the details to the director. This holds true from my first film 'Naache Mayuri' to 'Naagin.'

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

It doesn't matter if you're a star or not; what is important is that you do your job with absolute honesty.

The fact that I had a gay agent was good because he could say: 'Honey, you've got an audition today. Keep your feet on the ground, O.K.?'

I am very proud to stay and be a Chelsea player. It is an honour to play at this club.

I shared a dressing room with Pete Postlethwaite for 18 months, and he became a good friend. His discipline had an impact on me. You could have a laugh with him, but he was always on the ball when it came to work and very professional. Hopefully some of that rubbed off on me.

I would work with Trevor Horn any day of the week. I have a great relationship with him.

I don't know where horse riding could have taken me, and it's something I can always go back to when I've retired from football, but the crossroads came in my life when Chelsea wanted to sign me and make me a professional footballer in 2013 when I was 20.

Women who are paid to look hot get hit on all the time, so don't roll up on a restaurant hostess with your non-iron Trump Collection shirt and expect anything to pop off.

Having worked with Sarah Paulson on 'American Horror Story: Hotel' and seeing the lengths she goes to when shooting a scene, you go, 'Oh, so that's what this is going to be like.'

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

Driving from town to town, living in hotels, sometimes not going home during the week because you have an appearance - you really have to be dedicated to do this job.

As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.

There's a lot of players that go to a city, pick up a check, go to practice, and just worry about what's happening in their households, and you can't blame them.

Whether you're a mechanic or you build houses or you work in an office, you don't have to like your boss.

I always ask candidates two things: 'How many times have you been fired?' and, 'Do you watch your clock when it's time to go? Do you look at your phone? Do you look at your watch?'

I'm a huge fan of Bill Macy, so working with him in any capacity was exciting for me.