Professional Discretion Quotes

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

I cannot and will not violate my duty to protect confidential communications with the president.

The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.

I would never be in a film just for the sake of being in a film, so I am waiting for the right role to come along.

I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career.

When you ask me why I do one film a year, it is not my fault. I've chosen what I liked from whatever work came my way.

In terms of client & press requests, I operate under the assumption that anything I say will be blasted out in public, so I measure my words incredibly carefully because of the scrutiny I'm under.

I don't talk about any of my projects until the production house makes an official announcement.

Even during 'Udta Punjab,' I didn't say much until the film was out. I feel it's incorrect to talk about a film until everything falls into place.

Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.

It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

For an actor to be working at all is a kind of miracle, because most actors aren't. So it's just silly for a working actor to say, 'Oh, I don't care if anybody knows I'm gay' especially if you're a leading man. Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.

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

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

If there's something really, really bothering me about a script, then I'll say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.

Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.

Money is important, but I gotta like the song to play it. I won't just jump on anything because someone asked me to jump on it. I'm a musican. I love music. I gotta like it and feel comfortable with it.

I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days.

There certainly are people who are a pain to work with. I'd be crazy to name them. You can't be indiscreet in this business.

I'm very good at separating things, and one of the things that I've always separated is that my business from one artist to the next has nothing to do with each other.

Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

I can't get into talking about why another actor left. It has nothing to do with me.

I'd worked for, during one period, for a PR firm, and for a while Rock Hudson was a client of ours, so I knew him well, and I knew when he had AIDS, that he had AIDS, but I would not write about that.

I do a lot of decision making before each shoot. It's a luxury to be able to choose what you do.