"I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession."

-- Karen Allen

#Profession Quotes

“You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?”
“An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.”
“My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.”
“I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.”

Source : "The GQA: The Black Keys". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. March 28, 2012.
“I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.”

Source : Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
“... Tal accepted absolutely all the world champion's conditions with a smile, taking away a very important psychological trump card from him - the harsh, prickly relations with his opponent that were characteristic of all Botvinnik's matches.”
“The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.”

Source : Daily Telegraph, October 12, 1989.

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