Katharine McPhee Quotes

I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

I think it's highly unprofessional to not make weight.

If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.

I'm very professional.

I have a good work ethic.

Discipline is a big thing for me, you have to respect the workplace and your team-mate.

Whoever I suit up for... I'm going to do my job.

Sometimes you just don't show up, and in our profession, it's a bad day.

I show up. I make weight. I'm a professional.

If you want someone to pay you - the highest paid receiver in the history of the game - damn act like it.

What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.

Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

I would say if you are going to party, show up on time to work.

What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.

It's not just what you do on the pitch, it's what you do off the pitch.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

I don't have a lot of stomach for people who don't show up to a set knowing their lines because you're keeping 150 people waiting.

I take my work seriously.

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.

Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.