Professional Dignity Quotes

I've sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don't need sauce. I know he doesn't even want you to pour sauce. And I've seen customers come in and do that, and I've seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I've seen him die a little inside.

I'm an actor, not a clown.

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.

The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .

The FBI that I see is people, decent people, committed to the highest principles of dignity and professionalism and respect... Now do we make mistakes? You bet we make mistakes, just like everybody who's human makes mistakes.

I have a career, and I deserve respect.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.

I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.

I want to be treated like a musician.

... actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.

It doesn't matter if you're delivering pizza or the president of a company, you still deserve to be treated well, and with dignity. Not everybody feels that way, unfortunately, and I experienced that first hand.

It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

If it violates me physically, then it's not worth it to me. There will always be another job where you don't have to take your clothes off or have a gutter mouth.

I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It was a place where, if you did your job, you weren't a kid - you were a full person worthy of respect from all the adults in the company.

I've been charging what I deserve. I believe I am worth every penny of it, and if filmmakers think so, too, they will pay me.

The thing that forced me to think about my retirement was that I had played my cricket with honour and distinction, and I did not want to put myself in a position where I was considered a liability or unwanted by the selectors.

The term 'doctor' has been so abused lately! I didn't live in a hospital for 10 years so that term could be bastardized.

I may have had some banal roles, but they were never embarrassing.

I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.

If you get made fun of working at Pier One Imports, you can't pelt them with poop.