Quotes of: Professional-life Keyword

Stuart Whitworth: Isn't that what all you girls from Ole Miss major in - professional husband hunting?

The Help

Norman Stansfield: Bring me everyone. 3rd Stansfield man: What do you mean "everyone"? Norman Stansfield: EVERYONE.

Léon: The Professional

Léon: Stansfield? Stansfield: At your service. Léon: [handing him something] This is from... Mathilda. Stansfield: [sees that it's a pin for a grenade] Shit.

Léon: The Professional

Mathilda: How old were you when you made your first hit? Léon: Nineteen. Mathilda: Beat you!

Léon: The Professional

[to receptionist after being asked about her father (Leon)] Mathilda: He's not my father. He's my lover.

Léon: The Professional

Léon: You still have your gun, so use it. Just do me a favor, don't shoot it out the window.

Léon: The Professional

Benny: Oh, shit. We missed a girl, I'm trying to find the fucking super in this goddamn building.

Léon: The Professional

[he is having sex with his wife in the restroom, Mathilda opens the door] Mathilda's Father: Shut the goddamn door!

Léon: The Professional

Patton: There's only one proper way for a professional soldier to die: the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.

Patton

Sherlock Holmes: It's a matter of professional integrity! No girl wants to marry a doctor who can't tell if a man's dead or not!

Sherlock Holmes

I feel like being a door person was like college in a sense. I could watch comedy on a professional level seven nights a week without paying, and they would pay me a nominal amount of money to be there.

Mike Birbiglia

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

Martin Yan

There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.

Tony La Russa

In 1973 I became heavyweight champion of the world with 38 victories, no defeats as a professional. You get to a point where you think you cannot lose. I felt like I had the greatest power with my fists, I was the strongest man in the world.

George Foreman

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

George Stigler

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

Willie Mays

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

Anthony Storr

A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.

Sylvester Stallone

Coming from my bedroom in San Antonio to this big world and going from singing covers off my laptop to making music in this nice studio, making professional-sounding music - it's just weird.

Austin Mahone

It is surprising how many professional athletes, along with their families and friends, are gaga over movie and music stars, and the reverse is true with entertainers and sports stars.

Cheech Marin

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

David Byrne