Acting is only my profession.

Public scrutiny is a part of the profession. And I kind of enjoy it.

I knew nothing about professional comedians when I became a comedian. I was a rabbi. So I had no professional comedians to learn from.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.

A professional knows what's impossible. If you know it's impossible, it is impossible. But if you don't know it's impossible, suddenly it is possible.

I learned a lot from my father. I'm very lucky to have a father who was a professional athlete.

We don't want to keep talking about 'potential.' That word is the most dangerous word in professional sports.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

I have drawn a clear line between my personal and professional life.

I'm going to stay in the gym, stay watching film, stay focused, stay being an all around professional.

When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

While professional basketball, football, and baseball players make millions and their salaries represent well over 50% of the billions generated by those sports, the spoils of boxing don't often make it to the boxers.

Understandably, the electorate places great faith in the professional soldiers and strategists that run our military.

My conviction is that a full professional also wants to live professionally.

My first professional role was in 'Romeo and Juliet,' and I played Tybalt, who was Romeo's enemy, in a small production of that in the U.K.

TNA has been extraordinary to me, nothing but professional.

Anything you do in your life, you have to be a professional.

Any time you get to compete for the championship in a professional spot, it's just a magic thing.