Quotes About Professionalism

I don't want to sound like too much of a drama queen! But I'm not going to tell you, 'Oh, it's just so much fun.' It's work [working on film].

I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then you leave, and it's done.

When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.

I realized that when two people function well together at work, it doesn't matter if they hadn't seen each other for years. What they had before was still intact.

I want to work with Johnny Depp.

If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best.

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

Your work speaks for you.

I am definitively qualitative about work.

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.

I pay editors. I never ask friends or colleagues to work for free.

Publishers have in-house editors, but I hire my own before I submit the work to publishers. They appreciate it and I feel more confident about the material.

It's part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.

If you can learn to be incredibly passionate about your work without fighting for it just because it's yours, that's a huge thing.

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.

If your in business your in show business. The moment you get to work your on stage. Give your performance of your life.

I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.

Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also admire.

Anytime you do a job, especially one that's as intense and long as this one was, you have phantom work syndrome. I'm constantly feeling like I'm miked, so I'm careful of what I say all the time.

It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

I would say if you are going to party, show up on time to work.