Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.
When I'm at work, I do try and embody it as much as possible.
I want to be known for my work, that's most important.
You should not separate your life from what you do.
I realized mechanical engineering doesn't much lend itself to missionary work.
For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image.
I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.
I'm a news anchor; I'm not an ideologue.
I'm more of an engineer with a law degree than I am a lawyer with an engineering degree in terms of how I think.
I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.
There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.
Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.
The kind of roles which you get, people identify with your roles, and it then leads to the kind of brands you get.
I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now.
Even in the news division of Fox - which I want to make very clear and I have from the very beginning - I am not a journalist. In fact, I wear that as a badge of honor.
I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.
I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.
If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'
I'm a musician, I always was a musician, and now I've got a song on the radio, so I'm definitely a musician.
I could be a model for one night. But I'm also a professional soccer player, and I like to be taken seriously on the field.
I don't think of myself as an American Master. I've just been making a living.
I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.
Staying connected to the game and working for ESPN are very meaningful to me.
I'm an engineer by training.
Trust me, I did not set out to establish three pen names and, for the record, I do not recommend it as a career strategy. The idea back at the start was that I would stick with the name that proved most successful.
