#profession

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#demand #i #life #personal #personal life

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#being #could #death #die #doing

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers. ↗

— Steve Martin

#believed #best #comedians #comedic #entertainers

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession. ↗

— Edie McClurg

#collaborate #profession #singular

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#change #dwell #i #life #make

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#anonymity #celebrity #conducive #cover #every

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do. ↗

— Jerry O'Connell

#football #i #never #playing #professional

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#be true #been #contempt #deal #demoralized

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#give #i #illusion #just #now

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#end #end result #enviable #enviable position #get