Quotes About Professionalism

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.

I can count on one hand the number of conductors-composers-arrangers that I enjoy working with, and at the top of that list is Mack Wilberg. I feel like I've known Mack forever. I'm just nuts for him.

I wouldn't object to working with any former member of Yes, really.

I've always been able to work. I think it's an actor's obligation to keep working if you can.

We're trying to make sure that financial advisers act like lawyers and doctors. When you go to a lawyer or doctor, they have an obligation to put your best interests first. Financial advisers don't.

I really respect my craft and obligation to my audience.

When you are professional and working in a club like Everton, the obligation is to be motivated, to be focused.

I never did films for the sake of money alone or for any favour or obligation.

As a professional, you have an obligation to rehabilitate yourself as fast as you can.

My only obligation as a professional is to be prepared and be as good as I can be at my position.

When you're doing a film, your agent and manager spend hours - days - talking about contractual obligations. If you turn up for work and ask for a peeled grape on top of foie gras but you don't get it, you can't get annoyed.

The most important thing to me as a practitioner has been fidelity to my obligations and to the law.

I've learned that showing your emotions can work against you and that you need to have a business-like attitude to observe things with a cool head.

Scott Skiles is one of the best coaches in the NBA, someone I observe and learn from on a day-to-day basis.

We've got a great deal of respect for each other on camera as well as off, no matter what it might occasionally look like.

As actors, we have the best job in the world, but occasionally it can be made difficult by ego and by not listening to each other and lack of communication.

Mr. Ramsay was the head clerk; and as far as I am concerned I am for him. He never pinched the girls' arms when he passed them in dark corners of the store; and when he told them stories when business was dull and the girls giggled and said: "Oh, pshaw!" it wasn't G. Bernard they meant at all.

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself.

Read or Starve. Show me a man who has made fifty thousand dollars, and I will show you in that man an equivalent of energy, attention to detail, trustworthiness, punctuality, professional knowledge, good address, common sense, and other marketable qualities.

Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?

Early on, I'd occasionally wept in private after seeing an abused child. But quickly my tears had come to seem not just unprofessional but self-indulgent.

Mr. Pappleworth arrived, chewing a chlorodyne gum, at about twenty to nine, when all the other men were at work.

El ejecutivo que me dice que no puede recordar nombres, me está diciendo que no puede recordar una parte importante de su trabajo, y está operando sobre arenas movedizas. Karen