Profession Quotes · Page 30

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.

— Jeanne Moreau

My father always used to say to me, it doesn’t matter what the profession is, but if they’re the best in their…

— Nicolas Cage

But as we are looking toward our future, I'm not sure it matters what we want to be but rather who we…

— Ellen Schreiber

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there…

— Kim Cattrall

Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

— Christopher Paolini

Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting…

— Titian

How are you in the profession of protecting people without knowing who I am? I’ve been told I have one of the…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Some years ago, not long after I moved to Los Angeles from New York, I attended a television industry party. When a…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear…

— Anonymous

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there…

— Don McLean

[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into…

— Thomas Reid

I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write,…

— Davis Schneiderman

“I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late.”

— Brian Spellman

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

— Frederik Pohl

Listening is the most under rated part of my profession.

— Dana Bash

Our profession is built on the bedrock of trust - the trust that must inherently exist among Soldiers, and between Soldiers and…

— Raymond T. Odierno

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them…

— William Hazlitt

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am…

— Ami Bera

I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you…

— Eva Longoria

Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

— Wilder Penfield

It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate…

— Hans Haacke

Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take…

— Norman Bethune

Such a divine profession is art! When everything else looks so stale and disgustingly vacuous, so enthralls even the littlest real effort…

— Felix Mendelssohn

I've always been really in touch with my primal instincts. In my profession, you have to be.

— Andy Serkis

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

— Charlie Rose