Quotes About Professionalism

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid.

Around the time Andre Villas-Boas became manager I went to a summer training camp in America. But when I got back, to my horror, I found that all my kit had been moved into the reserve team changing room. I was told I wasn't allowed in the first team dressing room anymore.

Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.

In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.

I think you should keep your head down and do your job and shut up It's the news, it's not about me.

Sometimes managers are a little shy to criticize another manager or another operation.

I'm not shy, but I have a job to do. I don't need the notoriety.

I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.

I don't want to collect any paychecks as a cheerleader on the sideline.

I understand that at times coaches get heated, and there are things they don't really want to talk about. As a sideline reporter, you're in the line of fire, and I just got lit up once. And that's fine.

Everybody wants to be the hero but sometimes the hero is the guy who isn't seen as much, who is doing stuff on the sidelines and being professional.

My ideal would be to hop both sides of the Atlantic to work, as I'm sure every actor would.

I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional.

I don't regret my choice to sign for Milan.

Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

If you have to signal a bartender to get a drink, then they're not looking at you, which is their problem. They're not doing their job. So don't feel rude when you signal a bartender. They're the ones who caused you to signal them. Go for it.

Slouching or leaning back may send the wrong signals. When you sit down for a formal interview, lean forward to show interest and active listening.

When I signed my first contract with Sao Paulo I still wasn't sure that I was going to have a successful career. Even after you turn professional the competition is so intense, and as I was a bit older than some of the other players, I thought that it would be harder for me.