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

There's lots of interesting jobs in the profession besides acting, and I like to try and keep an eye on and understand other people's jobs, rather than just my own.
Sarah Sutton

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
Frances McDormand

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.
Diana Rigg

They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.
Louise Jameson

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.
Lawrence Korb

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.
Julia Barr

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
Donald Kagan

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

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost

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

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

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric Hoffer

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

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.
Irving R. Kaufman

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
Charles Babbage

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
Abraham Polonsky

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.
Geoffrey Holder

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession.
Skitch Henderson