Professional Gain Quotes

Although I do not believe in fame, what it brings me is the fact that I can ask someone to work with me, and they do not say no.

No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value.

Obviously, if you get a chance to be in Alexander Payne's movie, you're going to go for it, or you'd be a crazy person.

Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.

But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.

I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.

They had an opening. You know, it was one of those deals. I auditioned and got it in '93.

I've never slept with anyone who could help me at all. No one. I wish I had. If anything, everyone I've had sex with has been a real step in the wrong direction.

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested.

Photography has been very, very generous to me, but at the same time has damaged me.

Just being attached to 'Superman' actually gave a great boost to my career.