Professional Discomfort Quotes

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

The legal profession has been built by men for men in a man’s world. Women find it distinctly uncomfortable.

I don't like talking about my work at all. I find it very difficult. I never know what to say. It's too close to me, and there's so many things happening unconsciously while I'm working that I'm not aware of, and people will point these things out to me, and I'll say, "That's interesting." But I don't know what to make of it.

Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.

Shooting of a sex scene is never going to something where you're having a wonderful time. It's a very intimate thing and a very intimate space to be put into - that's usually a space reserved for one. To have someone else in that proximity is pretty jarring, but we're all in the same boat and we're all experiencing the same anxieties.

Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.

I did one print ad and thoroughly disliked the experience.

I think working in the industry, I'd be pretty nervous to have a celebrity crush.

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.