Profession Quotes

Acting is a youthful profession.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

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.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

I guess we're all lucky to be in this profession where you can be someone else for two or three months on a film shoot. I find it restful. Vachement agreable.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

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.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.

We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.