The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.
Shuler Hensley

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

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James A. Baldwin

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
William Booth

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

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.
Sergei Eisenstein

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

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
William Hazlitt

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Boris Yeltsin

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
Gerald F. Lieberman

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