I’m a character actor – always have been, always will be – and historically, character actors don’t come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives. – Annie Potts
I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example. – Arthur Wellesley
I had been in a professional boys’ choir, and as a boy soprano, you’re aware that your voice has an expiration date. – Alexander Chee
When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do. – Bob Gibson
When I got into drama school, that’s when I knew that I could safely say that I wanted to be a professional actor. – James Norton
The world is diverse, and having a professional team that mirrors the world is going to be more helpful for us. – Aileen Lee
I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like. – Jamie Foxx
I’m going to make an appearance in professional wrestling, but it won’t be for the WWE. If I put wrestling boots and wrestling trunks on one last time – and I’m going to – it’s going to be done by me and me only. – Bill Goldberg
I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn’t bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn’t know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection. – Imre Kertesz
I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That’s what fans are really looking for. – Andy Van Slyke
I haven’t seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid. – John McEnroe
My first professional job was a Pete Bowker series for ITV called ‘Monroe.’ I played a Junior Cardiac Surgeon called Mullery. – Andrew Gower
Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way. – Barry McGuigan
If it took professional wrestling for people to recognize me as a person, then all the other endeavors I embark upon will explain me as a person, define me as a person, but wrestling will not define me. – Bill Goldberg
I never planned to be a professional artist – I just want to be a sustainable artist. I guess they’re the same thing if you look at them from a different angle. – Courtney Barnett
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all. – Alan K. Simpson
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint. – Ben Shahn
I wish I’d become a professional dancer sooner. I did other jobs – like baking – while dancing part-time, and didn’t commit until I was 29. – Anton du Beke
Actually, I’ve always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six. – Bam Margera
I’m an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care. – Alma Guillermoprieto
I’d never done anything as high profile or professional as ‘Skins’, so ‘Skins’ is where I’ve started. – April Pearson
The late Christopher Hitchens had the professional contrarian’s fixation on attacking sacred cows, and rather soon after his cancer diagnosis, he became one himself. – Alex Pareene
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. – Alan Greenspan
I’d had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I’d sort ot fallen out of love with the sport. – Barry McGuigan