Professional Comparison Quotes

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

I am happy that I'm a better novelist than a screenwriter.

A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.

In medicine, there's a fairly large but still finite body of knowledge that you need at hand for most of your daily work. It takes a few years to learn it, but once it's there, it's there. With writing, on the other hand, every new book - indeed, every new story - is a fresh and terrifying reinvention of everything.

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

The thing that I didn't take into consideration is that acting, like wrestling, is a skill.

I am a better journalist than I am a businessman.

I will say this, being an anchor is easier than being a reporter, because one of the things I'm able to do is essentially work a bit of a split shift.

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

I feel very comfortable being compared to Sen. Sessions.

I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.

I put in the same hours to get good at this as a surgeon who went to college. It's just a much less important job in the realm of society.

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!

I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.

My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as good as my father. I wasn't as quick or as smart as my old man, and I realized it would be a long time before I was ever going to be, and I decided to do something else.

I'm the spokesman for ADT, and ADT, brother, pays better than most actors make on film.

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.

You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'

As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.

Engineers don't have that sixth sense where we can just toss in things here and there like many chefs.

So many people imagine housekeeping to be boring, frustrating, repetitive, unintelligent drudgery. I cannot agree. In fact, having kept house, practiced law, taught, and done many other sorts of work, low and high-paid, I can assure you that it is actually lawyers who are most familiar with the experience of unintelligent drudgery.

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.