Quotes About Professionalism

Never be associated with someone you can't be proud of, whether you work for him or he works for you

Never, ever, work for bad people

I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.

Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. You don't want to work with people who don't care or who are acting out some neurotic, crazy thesis on the set.

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

I dont work for production houses. I only work for good scripts and roles. If you follow my career graph, you will find that I have not given a single flop yet in my career. I am proud of it.

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.

Enjoy your work and have ethical standards.

As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work.

Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours.

If you're a professional, you'll make it work. You can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it.

You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.