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How do you cut off the human side and just maintain being professional? So what I've done is I've incorporated that with Kojak - there's times when he allows the human condition, the human experience, to integrate into him as a professional.

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

You have to be professional and think about the future.

We need to establish boundaries between our personal and professional lives. When we don't, our work, our health, and our personal lives suffer.

My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.

I'm a professional, and I have to always do my job.