Quotes About Professionalism

Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.

I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.

We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for. (on Manchester City players)

I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions.

[Warren Beatty] will sometimes spend hours on a very small detail to make sure he gets it right. After the kind of work that he's made, he certainly doesn't have to be doing that.

I want to be known as a good major-leaguer, and good major-leaguers work to become good.

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

I just think I have always had a good attitude about everything and never got ahead of myself. No one wants to work with a jerk.

I love to work with people who are great at what they do.

I don't have to work extra hard, but that's because there are a lot of women in my professional network and I have hired a lot of women as full-time writers and part-time columnists.

I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.

I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.

I'm not into clubbing. I want to be known for my work.

Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work.

I'm not ready to do any compromises for my work.

As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.

Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.