Quotes About Professionalism

All of the artists that I've worked with have an incredible work ethic. And Madonna has the best work ethic of them all. I've learned a lot from being around her.

Doing Much Ado was such a special thing because I knew everybody involved. With people you hadn't worked with before, you would watch them on shows and want to work with them.

As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.

A lot of women I worked with didn't respect their clients. I had some clients who didn't respect me, but still you somehow made it work.

I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.

Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?

I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera.

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing

People know if you've got the goods, if you're easy to work with, and if you can get the job done.

I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

Perform your job better than anyone else can. That's the best job security I know.

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

Unless you work in demolition, don't burn bridges.

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.

Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.