#profess

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#back #back up #before #break #ceremony

I think it's important to have professional lessons or advice. ↗

— Delta Goodrem

#i #i think #important #lessons #professional

I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a lot of professional work before. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#actor #anybody #before #being #done

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#although #any #except #felt #fondness

I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all. ↗

— Norman Granz

#i #impresario #judging #professional #talking

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

— Robert Graves

#poet #profession #rather #than

As a private person, professionally I am invisible. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#i #i am #invisible #person #private

I eventually thought, this is the only thing I could do as a profession, I can't really do anything else. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#could #else #eventually #i #only

I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#attention #awful #balance #deserve #greatest

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#almost #along #came #college #go