For me, it took five years to understand what professionalism meant. But I'm more settled now. I'm married, life changes, and I've been lucky in managing my injuries.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity.
Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
I've had a couple of years where injuries have not let me develop in the way I wanted. When I was 21, after the European Championship, I had more injuries. Everything has been less continuous and it has cost me more progress. Continuity is what got me where I am.
That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.
I just want to stay professional.
I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.
I am a career physician. I practiced for 32 years before I began my career as a public servant.
I honestly think what skyrocketed me into professionalism was learning how to play two people and still live through the day.