I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

- Bela Lugosi

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

- Christiane Amanpour

I am a gypsy, in a way. It's a condition of my profession.

- Christian Slater

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

- Criss Angel

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

- Clayton Christensen

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

- Chuck Schumer

As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!

- Charles Spurgeon

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

- Cate Blanchett

Writing is a lonely profession.

- Bob Mayer

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

- Bela Lugosi

I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.

- Action Bronson

I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.

- Adam Lamberg

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

- Audrey Tautou

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

- Asa Gray

Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.

- Arne Duncan

In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.

- Anna Deavere Smith

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

- A. R. Rahman

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

- Aziz Ansari

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

- Avi

I've always been really in touch with my primal instincts. In my profession, you have to be.

- Andy Serkis