There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice.

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.