Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.
Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.
The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake.
I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.
Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.
Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.
I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:. . . its. . . job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business. . . I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.
Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and torture.
I was always interested in drawing and creating, but it never really occurred to me that I could pursue art as my profession until my mid twenties. From all I had heard from other people, art was just something you do as a hobby in between your real work and real jobs.
Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.
Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.
Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees.
Lo, I am the most stupendous in the land at my particular profession.
Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.