Profession Quotes

• It's always fun to welcome new people into your life. When dating anyone or becoming friends with anyone who has a different profession, a different life, it opens doors. All my friends here do such different creative things. It's so awesome.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • People
  • Different
  • Fun

• My partner and I are very serious about the hero profession.

  

  Bill Willingham
  • Hero
  • Partner
  • Profession

• Maybe the the luxury of not having acting be my only profession is that I can be more selective about what I choose to be in. I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Lucky

• The Lord is not so concerned about what we study or what profession we follow as long as it is an honest living.

  

  Eldred G. Smith
  • Concerned
  • Profession
  • The Lord

• If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.

  

  Catherine Yass
  • Kind
  • Artist
  • Scientist

• Farming is a profession of hope

  

  Brian Brett
  • Hope
  • Profession
  • Farming

• In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.

  

  Walter Moers
  • Literature
  • Making
  • Hundred

• Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

  

  Mike Jackson
  • Important
  • Profession

• People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Profession

• Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve.

  

  Erin Gruwell
  • Wonderful
  • Profession

• Really, I am just a guy who likes his profession and travelling and good food, and that is it. I'm no different from you or anyone else.

  

  Hasnat Khan
  • Profession
  • Travelling

• People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Profession

• Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Writing
  • Learned
  • Profession

• It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • People
  • Actors
  • Existence

• Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Practice
  • Profession
  • Recognize

• First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Art
  • Philosophy
  • Income

• I love film acting - I'm not snobby about it. I don't think that theater acting's a more noble profession. I think they're both very important. I love both. And in my dream world, I'd get to do both forever.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Dream
  • I Love
  • Film Acting

• There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Profession
  • Brains
  • Crimes

• I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Feels
  • Should
  • Able

• I one hundred percent recognize that comedy is a more narcissistic profession and that I cannot directly improve people's lives the way I could if I had stayed in the policy world. But the trade-off is that I'm happier doing jokes.

  

  Negin Farsad
  • Comedy
  • Profession
  • Narcissistic

• Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

  

  Sean Covey
  • Life
  • Differences
  • Causes

• And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

  

  Suzanne Farrell
  • Want
  • Dancing
  • Profession

• If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.

  

  Stephen Dillane
  • Actor
  • Convinced
  • Disgrace

• Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

  

  Mickey Rourke
  • Acting
  • Choice
  • Profession

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