Quotes About Professionalism

Just learn your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

My advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into people, and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.

Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practise prompt repression of resentment and aggression.

We work together. That's it. So I want you to do us both a favor before you think I 'need' to know something. Ask yourself, 'If I were flipping burgers at McDonald's, would I be telling the fucking fry guy this?' If the answer is no, then shut the hell up.

If somebody doesn't call me a bitch once a day, I figure I'm not doing my job.

Sir. Several expressions passed over Peabody's face before it went carefully blank. That's a lovely dress, Lieutenant. Are you premiering a new style? Baffled, Eve looked down, then rolled her eyes. Shit. You've seen my tits before. But she set the communicator down and struggled the bodice into place. And may I say, sir, they're quite lovely. Sucking up, Peabody? You bet.

Eve leaned in again. "I am a ranking officer. If you call me a bitch, you'd better damn well put Lieutenant in front of it.

That works for now. Eve's stomach began to clench and jitter. There were tears swimming in her aide's eyes. Peabody's lips were quivering. What are you doing? she demanded. Nothing. Sir. How come you're going to cry? You know how I feel about crying on the job. I'm not crying. And it appalled her that she was on the edge of it. I just don't feel very well, that's all. I wonder, sir, if I could be excused from the briefing at sixteen hundred.

give details, professional courtesy

You did good today. I won't have to think twice going through the door with you. As Eve walked away, Peabody gaped after her. It had been simply, even casually said, but it was the finest professional compliment she'd ever been given.

I rarely do business with wankers.

Both men refer to Carly Fisher as a girl—a small thing, maybe, but it shows an innate lack of respect for females in the workplace.

When she finally muscled her way off, she reminded herself to be clear, thorough, and dispassionate. She reached Whitney's outer office, and his admin. "I need

Wow, she breathed. I know, right? Hung like a horse. If you're really nice-and you live through this-I'll promise not to tell V. About my size. She laughed a little, No, that you assumed I'd look at you in any fashion other than professionally.

Thou Shalt Not Mack on Your Patients

Thou Shalt Not Mack on Your Patients" part of the Hippocratic oath. Especially

I loved playing with friends and talking trash over 'FIFA' and 'Mario Kart.' Then, in the early stages of my professional career, I got into 'Assassin's Creed' and 'The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.'

There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.

I want to be known for my performances and doing my craft well, not for funny stuff I post on Twitter or whatever.

Twitter is definitely not the place to handle business per se.

I honestly think what skyrocketed me into professionalism was learning how to play two people and still live through the day.

I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.

One thing I would say is that I think in any environment that you work in, there's always going to be one or two people who you don't like. But there just wasn't that on 'Games Of Thrones'. I know it sounds cheesy and cliched, but it was like a big family.