Quotes About Professionalism

I pride myself on having been a productive player in the NFL for 12 seasons.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

I couldn't really justify playing for money, and I think what I wanted to achieve put me at too great a risk, so I just decided on another profession.

I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

What I like to wear, I do myself. I don't know how that sounds, but it's the truth. My life is so mixed with my profession that I don't know where I begin or my work ends.

Sometimes you just don't show up, and in our profession, it's a bad day.

I think I'm the greatest chick in the game, and I expect all the others to feel the same way. If not, you're in the wrong profession.

Being an actress does not mean that each thing that happens in my life has to be news or meant to be shared with others. Acting is a profession, and once I leave the sets, I want to be left alone.

I always wanted to be a good actress and a serious actress. I wasn't in the profession to, quote-unquote, meet the stars.

There are days when there's no will to do anything. It's not easy for someone in my profession, because you are always meant to be in the limelight. I can't just not turn up, as I will come across as unprofessional, and people won't work with me anymore.

As an actor I am prepared for every role, that's my profession.

I guess it became easier for me to accept negative comments about my work, my profession - anything work-related because like I said I take them as positive criticisms.

My profession has never demanded that I be mobbed by fans.

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

Here in America, people are very professional.

In the end, for me, football is still a game. Even if you are a professional, you need to have fun when you are on the field. If you don't enjoy your job, you don't have fun.

As a professional, I cannot afford to be complacent.

Since I'm a professional, every day I try to become a better player.

I want to be a professional.

Experiencing so many firsts, maturing as an actor, a professional, and a human. In the process, gaining friends, family, and the best coworkers a very lucky actor could ask for - and for this, I can be nothing but gracious.

I'm a professional; I feel I'm one of the best in the game.