Quotes About Professionalism

I've always seen actresses who constantly date their leading men or somebody they co-star with, and I've been the opposite. Once I act with you, I feel like you're my brother.

Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.

A man always looks good in a dark suit.

An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

John Waters is one of the sweetest, dearest, most adorable men I've ever worked with.

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money, he wouldn't lay a hand on you.

My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.

When I first came on tour, I was playing for money. Now I'm playing to win golf tournaments and the money is more than I ever dreamed I could make.

I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.

Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.

Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.

I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

During job interviews, when they ask: 'What is your worst quality?', I always say: 'Flatulence'. That way I get my own office.

Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside.

The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.