To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
By nature, my default place is a very introverted one, so it's funny to be in such an extroverted profession. I'm a little inappropriately in it.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don't get that.
I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.
I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.
Growing up, I always wanted to always be something new. I thought if I was an actress, I would have a chance at doing it all. What's incredible about this profession is every role you play; you learn a different skill set. That really appealed to me.
When you're young and have the opportunity, it's crucial to learn as much as possible about your profession from every possible angle.
There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.
Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.
A relationship takes time, and you really have to work hard at it. I'm devoted to my profession, but when I find the right guy, I'll work just as long and hard for him.
A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.
No matter what your profession is, it's good to scare yourself a little from time to time! It's crucial to keep challenging yourself and to learn from people who are more accomplished than you are.
In any profession it gets to be a grind.
I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
My profession has helped me to grow up.
Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired.
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.
You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.
And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.
It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.
Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.
He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.
