Professional Quotes

• I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.

  

  Lindsay Hartley
  • Experience
  • Professional

• The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.

  

  Lee R. Raymond
  • Business
  • Responsibility
  • Professional

• An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

  

  Ben Shahn
  • Wife
  • Professional

• My son is a professional musician now.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Son
  • Professional
  • Musician

• When I became a professional and fully understood what was going on, I knew that with all the love and care and mentorship that someone like Professor James Herring had given us, was not based on gender; it was based on the notion that he wanted us to succeed.

  

  David C. Driskell
  • Care
  • Professional
  • Succeed

• I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.

  

  John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • Professional

• As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.

  

  Doug Collins
  • Family
  • School
  • Done

• The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Professional

• Your spouse, a sibling, a friend need to read your drafts. They have to be people unafraid to tell you what sucks. For early feedback, that's more important than professional editorial skill. Most people know what sucks.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • People
  • Important
  • Friend

• My first professional audition as an actor was when I was about 12 years old, and it was for a children's television show called 'M.I. High,' which I ended up doing for two years.

  

  Bel Powley
  • Up
  • Children
  • High

• I am very proud of what I have done since I turned professional. It's been great to become the first teenager to win three times, to have played in some Majors and the Masters, and to have twice broken into the world's top 50 and stayed there for a bit of time.

  

  Matteo Manassero
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I was the only one silly enough to carry it on to the professional level, but I would say most of my family - and my extended family - are storytellers. And really, that's just what acting is.

  

  Genevieve O'Reilly
  • Family
  • Professional
  • Silly

• I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

  

  George Cukor
  • Movie
  • Control
  • Professional

• Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

  

  Jerry O'Connell
  • Football
  • Professional

• Fashion is really interesting to me, but I'm not a professional model, so I'm focusing my career on acting.

  

  Rinko Kikuchi
  • Interesting
  • Professional
  • Fashionable

• 'Party Down' was one of the most magical, special experiences of my professional career. Also special in my personal life, too. I made really good friends, and I had just a great time, and it was a great part.

  

  Ken Marino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.

  

  Jim Evans
  • Question
  • Decision
  • Professional

• The N.C.A.A. is a multibillion-dollar business built on the talents of players who are often unqualified for or uninterested in being students and who benefit materially from the system only if they are among the few who turn professional.

  

  David Shields
  • Business
  • Professional

• I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.

  

  Francois Truffaut
  • Music
  • Professional

• The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

  

  Alan K. Simpson
  • Mind
  • Training
  • Professional

• We're going to live on the edge. My spikes will have chalk on them.... We're pretty aggressive within the law. As a professional, I'm troubled if I'm not using the full authority allowed by law.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Live
  • Pretty
  • Law

• I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like.

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • Women
  • Professional

• So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

  

  George Jean Nathan
  • Up
  • Long
  • May

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