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I always wanted to be a good actress and a serious actress. I wasn't in the profession to, quote-unquote, meet the stars.
A lot of people are attracted to the acting profession because they think it's a cheap, easy, free ride. It really isn't.
I am very happy being an actor. I am doing very well for myself in the acting profession. I am not going to join politics.
When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.
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.
I have great emotion every time I go on stage. Nothing in life gives me the same satisfaction that my profession gives me.
I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.
Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
I would have loved to have been science-minded enough to be in the caring profession - either as a doctor or nurse or vet.
If you don't have patience in this profession, you almost always end up getting bent out of shape expecting quick results.
Being in the profession of acting, I definitely have to be a people's person and socialise when it's an absolute necessity.
I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
I knew I wanted to be an artist early on, but I decided to seriously pursue the profession when I auditioned for Juilliard.
I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.
Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way.
As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing.
For me, turning 65 doesn't include walking away from my profession because of age; I love my job and the company I work for.
It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
I was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist and a magician.
A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.
In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
A profession which is seen as intellectually glamorous is often the most misunderstood when it comes to the commerce involved.
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.
Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.
You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself.
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
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.
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me.
I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
If you're trained as a proper political consultant, you should be able to undertake your profession no matter who the client is.
I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.
I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.
Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.
Even in high school, music was just a really fun thing on the side. I don't think I grasped the fact that it could be a profession.
I'm confident to say that if you want to grow in a profession, consistency is the key… I'm strict about my work goals and training.
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.