Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner drive go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

But whatever my failure I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession just as my grandfathers were in theirs in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot but it can't access the hidden places.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself and your imagination and experience but actually in the end you're not playing yourself.