#profession

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

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#anybody #anything #doing #humility #into

When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#auditioned #became #company #few #got

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#before #brand #brand new #career #done

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#fully #had #hamlet #i #most

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

— Jerry O'Connell

#football #i #never #playing #professional

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#filled #hollywood #joy #laughter #life

No one is pro-abortion. ↗

— Barack Obama

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that. ↗

— Will Oldham

#find #give #hear #i #interactions

The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#football #guys #i #into #look