Quotes About Professionalism

When you graduate and come out with a degree in drama, that doesn't mean you're skilled and you're a professional.

The life of an actor is not filled with limousines and talk-show interviews. I've moved crates of beer; I've been a bartender, personal assistant, butler. But all those skills have helped me in the business aspect of what I do.

One thing for me that modeling definitely did was that you go to do a different job every day, and you are working with a completely new team of people. You have to learn how to talk to people and how to creatively achieve the same goals. I think it just hones your people skills.

When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.

We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'

I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.

Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

JLo and I did not get along well when we worked together. I don't think there's love lost. I don't know if there was a lot of love from the very beginning.

I do love children, but I don't really talk about that in auditions.

If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.

My love affairs are just between my office and gym.

Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

Gymnastics is definitely my job, but the great thing about that is I love my job.

I make too much money to play a game I love to ever feel sorry for myself.

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.

Seeing Ed Belfour have expectations higher than anyone else of him shows the kind of competitor he is. I would love to incorporate a high level of professionalism into my game.

I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.

He [Walter Cronkite] was also a profoundly good man. I don't think we should lose sight of that. All those professional gifts emanated from a very good core and that's something that's beyond training. It's who he was.

She is buttoned-up as always, a smart suit, dark hair pulled back, never letting her guard down while on camera. Her job, she has told me more than once, is not to make friends with the staff but to keep them organized, praise good work, and sweat the details so I can focus on the hard, big stuff.

he never did like to talk about it all that much 'It's my work,' he'd say, 'and I do it for pay

Cohn had witnessed this for over a year—denial when needed or useful or more convenient. "He's a professional liar," Cohn told an associate.

Kelly said, "That was the greatest show of self-control I have ever seen. If that was me, I would have taken that resignation letter and shoved it up his ass six different times.