Professional Limitation Quotes

It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

That's my contribution - running a sound, healthy company that serves millions of customers well and employs hundreds of thousands of people. What else am I going to do? I'm not an artist. I'm not a writer. I'm not a musician. I'd love to be a tennis player or musician. I'm not.

I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.

I'm certainly not a f**king fashion consultant. Don't call me if you want to know how to dress. I just rap. That's all I really know how to do.

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

When you lack a certain vitality in the film business, there's no hiding it. It's like you've had your limb chopped off. How do you hide the fact that you're missing an arm?

I don't know about any others, but coaching basketball is the only thing I can do.

When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to - it leaves nothing.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.

For me, I've always told myself, 'I can only do me in the ring.' When I go out there and perform, I can only do what Sasha Banks can do.

I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

It is told of Faraday that he refused to be called a physicist; he very much disliked the new name as being too special and particular and insisted on the old one, philosopher, in all its spacious generality: we may suppose that this was his way of saying that he had not over-ridden the limiting conditions of class only to submit to the limitation of a profession.

When I'm walking around, I'm usually drinking pop, so I can't have a mask on. That's why I couldn't be a surgeon.

The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.

You can become really pigeon-holed in this industry.

Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.