Quotes About Professionalism

My job is to be ready, to be ready to pitch, however that is, however many innings that is, I need to be ready for that. I need to go in and do my job.

Interestingly, I'm more closed on set than I am off set. On set, I'm closed. I don't want input. I want to concentrate on what I'm doing with this other person. But outside of that, I'm open. I'm everybody's friend, unless they don't like me.

Going into work and seeing Shawn Michaels - someone I watched growing up - how many people can say that? That they get to see people like Shawn Michaels at work and that they get to learn off Shawn Michaels. To me that's insane.

Actors are dumb when they get insecure of their co-stars. A lot of actors do. When there is a good actor, they're like, 'Oh, he's eating up the part.' That's stupid.

More than good co-actors, if you have understanding co-actors, it becomes easier to relate with them. Many actors become insecure and get personal, which is not right.

I've been in the game so long and I've been around a bunch of guys and sometimes they don't even like each other, but they'll be in the same room, they're on the same record, they're in the same video. It's just all about the business and it's not personal. With women, it's always personal and emotional. We can be envious and insecure.

Sometimes I'm on a TV set, and I can't feel what I'm supposed to feel as that character because I've not worked my way up to that point. I think there's a bit more insecurity on a set - you've got to blag it, or you've got to do what you've been paid a lot of money to do in a very short space of time.

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

I go about my craft as a professional and learn ways to get better, trying to carry myself in a way that I think can inspire others.

Actors can have a fair amount of hate for each other, so when another actor says, 'You did your thing,' or 'That was inspiring,' you can't really ask for more than that.

I have a strong, inspiring, and professional group of women around me with Boels-Dolmans. We race and train incredibly hard as a team.

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.

When you come from FTII, people take you seriously. The environment at the institute is very conducive to learning.

The Sanders Institute will not be taking any potshots at people.

I've always respected and taken care of my instrument.

There was one incident where we couldn't hear ourselves, so we were singing in an entirely different key than the instruments. It gets so loud at a Jonas Brothers concert!

I know people will criticise when you play bad; that is part of this job, and I am fine with that. That is not a problem. The problem is the insults. That is what hurts the most.

You can do TV and radio without the personal insults.

I look, absolutely, like I'm going to sell you insurance.

How do you cut off the human side and just maintain being professional? So what I've done is I've incorporated that with Kojak - there's times when he allows the human condition, the human experience, to integrate into him as a professional.

We should integrate the quality of ex-players at the highest level more in football, especially in the youth sector. That is absolutely crucial for me.

I really admire people who have the integrity and dignity to hold out for the best work, even if that means you're not going to work for six months. But I don't have that.

As long as we deliver services with the highest level of quality and integrity, I'm happy.