Profession Quotes · Page 6

Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny

— Mikhail Dudan

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

— Elie Wiesel

A man can be a hero in any profession

— Walt Whitman

Each profession has its own toolkit.

— Robert J. Shiller

Music isn't only a profession.

— Jose Carreras

I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

— Kevin Spacey

“Respect lies in your work, not in your profession.”

— Ranu Das

My profession has helped me to grow up.

— Anonymous

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

— Gerald Brenan

Make-up is an integral part of my lifestyle because of the profession I'm in.

— Kirti Kulhari

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.

— Kevin Ayers

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

— Charles Lyell

I don't want to be in the spotlight, ever! I don't know why I got in this profession!

— Ana de Armas

Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.

— Lea Thompson

What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.

— Robert Duvall

I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.

— Josh Fox

Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and…

— Naomie Harris

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer,…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

— George Bernard Shaw

I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other…

— Denzel Washington

It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie…

— Wayne Coyne

Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of…

— Len G. Murray

What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in…

— Simone Signoret

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you're going drama just because everybody else…

— Kevin Hart

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job.…

— Van Morrison

All human professions, institutions, and activities must be integral with the earth as the primary self-nourishing , self-governing and self-fulfilling community. To…

— Thomas Berry

Women get hit with a double whammy. If they're attractive, they're presumed to have slept their way to the top. If they're…

— Gloria Steinem

I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I…

— Hugh Dancy

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

— Anonymous

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the…

— Oscar Wilde

I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would…

— Michiel Huisman

A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts…

— Laurence Olivier

They don't mind getting punched in the face and, more importantly, they don't mind punching other people in the face. I'm just…

— Scott Adkins

I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice…

— Nelson Mandela

I love actors. Part of that is my theater background and being a writer who cares about performance. Actors have usually chosen…

— Martin McDonagh

Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain…

— Sophia Loren

Coming from the William Morris mailroom as I have, this book is the truth of what I experienced, and it reminded me…

— Bernie Brillstein

Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the…

— Saint Augustine

“Ally turned her attention back to Brian Byrne. "So what do you do for a living when you're not searching out your…

— Nina Bangs