Professional Priorities Quotes

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.

I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

I certainly don't read coverage of me, I read what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.

I was a coach at Spurs for 15 years. I did want to go into management but what was important to me was doing a very good job in whatever capacity I was employed.

I never had the desire to be a professional Twitterer. Every now and then something dumb pops into my head and I'll tweet it. I don't feel any obligation to respond to everyone. Not that I don't appreciate people sending me messages on there, but there are too many. Responding to everyone would take away time for all the stuff I'm actually in the business for.

If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.

I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work, even when I made career moves with projects that made more sense in sort of a career way than in an artistic way... like I did with 'The Darkest Hour.'

I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.

I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.

When I do become the champion, I'll still be a fire fighter.

People say, 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' My job in the band is to play drums, to get up on stage and hold the band together. That's what I do. At the end of the day that's all that's important. Everything else is irrelevant.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

That’s not me. I wouldn’t [take paternity leave.] Quite frankly, I would have said C-section before the season starts. I need to be at Opening Day. I’m sorry.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

I adore my family; they are my joy. However, I am committed to my work. If, on a Saturday morning when I was ostensibly going to be with the children, and something arose at RADA or at UNICEF or at the orphanage or whatever, I would allow the other pressures to take precedent.

After I got back my career and my artistic freedom in 1982, my golden rule is the music must never suffer.

I'm here to make music; I'm not here be a fashion model.

I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

When I listen to scripts, I never ask who my co-star is - instead, I ask about the characters and the producers of the particular venture.

The career stuff is for business people.