Words matter. These are the best Craft Quotes from famous people such as Zac Posen, Ravyn Lenae, Michael Chabon, Henry Mintzberg, Bhumi Pednekar, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it’s not about craft and technique there.
I enjoy going to shows to study other artists. It is important to always remain a student to my craft.
What’s going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I’ll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft – meaning experience – there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.
Everywhere in the society, even my extended family, when they got to know that I am going to be an actor, they were very worried because there is a lot of negativity attached to my craft or being a heroine.
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
I get very competitive with myself and always look to better myself from my previous projects. I have learned that it’s important to work on the craft than the project.
It’s rare that I’m not at work on some sort of craft project. I’ve often enthused about the need to make things; how it employs a unique set of muscles – physical, intellectual, spiritual – that I can attain a state of flow when making something that I almost never can when writing.
I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings.
The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It’s a thing of discovering. That’s when writing is really working. You’re on the trail of something, and you don’t quite know what it is.
I took my time to learn the craft and procedure. I wanted to do some substantial work first in cinema.
I’m a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting.
I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn’t get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.
I believe that I improve with every book I write – most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I’m still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn’t something that can be perfected. There’s always room for improvement.
I hate to debunk the myth – kids don’t wanna hear it – but as songwriters, you have to polish your craft a little bit and hone it as much as possible.
What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That’s why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
There are so many actors that I meet that don’t act enough. Definitely take class, definitely train – that’s the most important thing you do. Build your craft. Become better.
Film and stage are very different; I don’t necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.
In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy… I will be part of President Obama’s efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.
I’m so passionate and love the craft of movies and watch them over and over.
I think it takes an unbelievable amount of hours for anybody to master their craft.
There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these ‘Saw’ scripts, and there’s only so much you can put into them.
I am not skilled enough or energetic enough to craft a persona. I just have to be who I am and hope people like it.
I take pride in my craft, and I work extremely hard.
Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and you’ll have neither a craft nor a community.
Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like… you sort of summon them and it’s like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It’s like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.
Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, ‘I just got a guitar for Christmas, let’s start a band.’ And you can hear the difference.
What I want people to take away from my music is that it’s important to listen. Especially for young people, your opinion is the one that counts the most when it comes to your craft.
I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.
I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn’t read any ‘how to’ books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn’t even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.
Rahman sir keeps pushing himself. He keeps trying new things, whether it is his craft, music or sound… he is always learning. He looks for opportunities to learn, even from children.
People like me for who I am, I don’t wanna change that, if anything I just wanna hone my craft and get better at it.
You’ve got to wake up and perfect your craft, every day, and at the end of the day, you know, you get the star power, magazines, photos shoots, but you’ve got to say humble, you’ve got to stay grounded.
In politics, it’s very theatrical. There’s a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
Being a writer is a very difficult craft. Just like learning an instrument, it takes a long time and I couldn’t really say I was a writer even after my first memoir.
If you work hard and you believe in your craft and yourself, I don’t think nobody can stop you.
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I’m just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they’ve used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
I care deeply about craft: the quality of how something is made and the experience it enables.
Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It’s about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.
Whenever you step on the ice, you need to be a student of the game and try to hone your craft. You’re never going to play a perfect match, but you’re always chasing that perfect game.
I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.
It wasn’t stone. It wasn’t welded steel. It wasn’t traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn’t define it in the early Fifties when I was starting out.
I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.
I hate the idea of massive fame. I think the scariest thing for an actor is when your name becomes bigger than your craft or what you can do.
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day.
I think what made Dancing With the Stars’ the number one show for so long, is that we take our craft seriously, we take our relationships seriously.
A writer must experiment with genres. Otherwise, it is a restriction on the craft.
I went to a seminar early in my career on the craft of storytelling by Robert McKee. It was really life altering. There are basic principles on how to craft an engaging story and he covers them well. He’s got a book out, ‘Story,’ that I would highly recommend to anyone interested in improve their storytelling.
Sticking with your craft goes a long way in ensuring that you’ll be successful.
Independent films are the ones with the great possibility of keeping you on your toes, challenging your craft and skills, and forcing you to learn something new.
There are decisions I could have made, moves I could have made, that would have got me seen more. I do it because I enjoy the craft and the challenge of trying to make something that doesn’t exist come alive, and that’s what I’m in it for.
It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
I could hardly sit through ‘Frozen.’ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.
I did 10 years on ‘Sopranos,’ but the whole craft of acting is relatively new to me. I’m still learning that, and I’ll be learning that forever.
What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.
I have to really work hard at my craft.
The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.
I would never finish my home work but I was good at drawing and craft.
I don’t even listen to peoples’ music… I’m really in-tune with my craft, I listen to me all day long.
Accolades are there to congratulate you but also to make you understand that it’s not over. You now have to continue trying to improve the craft and keep going. It’s not something to rest on.
I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of good songwriters, and I try to actually work on the craft of writing a song rather than just leaving it up to inspiration.
I had to either get better or leave the field. I couldn’t go back to my village as a failure. The only thing that occurred to me was that I would work hard and get better next year. I feel that my love for the craft has got me this far, and this love is still there.
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And I’m very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.
The more you know about your country, your people, you invest better in your craft.
I’m going to keep perfecting my craft and keep getting better.
I’ve always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.
I think it takes an unbelievable amount of hours for anybody to master their craft.
The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.
If you have a great business, if you’re great at your craft people should be coming in there. It shouldn’t be this secret.
I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn’t date much, really – perhaps because I didn’t have many hormones, though I didn’t know that at the time.
When I’m in the audience of Broadway shows, I feel like I’m in the presence of something really special with artists working at the height of their craft and doing the best work that they possibly can.
Our preoccupation has always been to craft space in such a way as to induce social interactions that would in turn generate a sense of community and a culture, but starting from the very immediate issue of how action influences perception.
You can’t improvise without a skeletal structure; you can’t just go in and start talking. This is a very misunderstood craft because no one else makes movies like this.
I learned that it’s OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it’s OK to demand excellence from the industry.
I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn’t used his art to get girls? What journalists or actors haven’t used their craft as well? It’s a very human instinct to pursue.
Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
I wrote every day. I don’t think I could have written ‘Just Kids’ had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.
I conduct myself as if I am a spaceman in Hollywood. I don’t want to do anything fancy. I don’t want people to send me free clothes. I just want to be grateful for this craft they let me do.
Art can’t be taught; passion can’t be taught; discipline can’t be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.
Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.
All of them – my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother – were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.
The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there’s also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.
Playing sports is a craft that has to be worked on and perfected just like anything else.
Ahmedabad is a cultured city with a rich heritage of craft and theatre.
I hone my craft. I keep going. I light a little fire under myself. I look around for roles that will challenge me. And I’m grateful for all the ones I get.
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
With ‘Korra’ we’ve really taken a lot of time to craft it. We’re aiming pretty high, and in order to keep up the quality it just takes a lot of time and a lot or work.
Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science. That puts me in exactly the same position as most dogmatic environmentalists who want to craft public policy around global warming fears.
I feel like the more I work on different songs and the more I work on my voice constantly… I always feel better after I post a cover. Even if it’s doing the little 15 second covers, I’m working on my craft, and it’s really good for me, and I feel good after I do it.
So the English approach to show business and their work is more – and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say – but it’s more, they work on it as a craft job.
I still have the first bottle opener I made on my MakerBot. Things you fabricate are things you care more about. I think there will always be people who go and buy crap at the dollar store. But I think it is cool when people craft things themselves.
I used to feel that if I wasn’t living out my songs, I wasn’t doing myself or my craft justice, and that’s a dangerous way to live because then you become what you make.
Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.
There’s some ignorant people in the world, and if I spend time trying to convince people to think like me, I’ll be wasting valuable time I could use to be growing my business, perfecting my craft as a fighter, watching film, studying, or just enjoying time with my family. Or just sleeping.
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one’s own advantage and to that of one’s craft that a large part of genius consists.
I’m perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I’ve never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can.
One thing I’ve learned from ‘Strictly’ is timing and the craft of the talk.
As writers, our craft makes us sit alone at a desk and hammer away at our novel. Doing that day in and day out makes it really easy to forget that there’s a whole community of writers out there, and they love contributing to other writers’ success!
I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.
I wound up getting offered a job at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where I invented a power supply mechanism for the Galileo space craft which was in orbit around Jupiter until 2003.
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer’s because it attacks the two things most central to a writer’s craft – language and memory, which together make up an individual’s identity. Alzheimer’s makes a new character out of a familiar person.
Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career – novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.
I think that we live in a time where it’s easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.
Anyone who takes the craft of songwriting seriously I radiate towards. Spending time with Daryl Hall was a dream come true. I picked his brain a lot because Hall And Oats is timeless.
It feels great when people talk about your craft and you get noticed for it.
Someone taught us how to craft a resume, what to wear to a job interview and not to put our elbows on the table. Athletes also must be trained as professionals. Their livelihoods depend on it.
Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it.
I don’t want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
There’s something about ‘Free Solo’ that I look at the craft around it, and I’m really proud.
It’s not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader’s comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of time.
I’m one of the guys that thinks you have to spend a lot of time at whatever your craft is in order to sustain it, and in order to get better at it.
I think the theater is basically the boot camp for the actor. If you can survive the rigors of an eight-show-a-week schedule and be at your best all the time, you can handle virtually everything because no other craft requires you to get it right every single time.
Growing up, my mom was a stay-at-home mom. I knew that her entire world revolved around us, and she relished being involved in every school project and every craft.
What I’ve learned over the years is that the craft of songwriting is trying to take the personal and make it universal – or in the case of telling a story, taking the universal and making it personal.
I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.
If you’ve been told all your life that you’re good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby – or even have depth.
I started doing theatre with Satyadev Dubey at Prithvi and I had to start from scratch. I had fallen in love with the craft of acting by then.
I think if you enjoy teaching, if you enjoy talking about your craft, that’s probably the best way to do it… because once a player starts to get it, once he figures it out, he’ll never forget it.
I only collaborate with the people I rock with in life, period. I rock with people where I really respect their craft and respect what they’re doing. That’s what collaboration should start from.
I dare say that if most comedians today, the gifted ones, were to sit down and write, they’d learn more about their craft. But what happens is they get out there before they learn what their viewpoint is, if any.
I love well-produced stuff. The craft and the art of production is something I really, really love.
It would be completely laughable if I claimed I was always motivated by the pure craft of acting and that recognition doesn’t play a part. Of course it does – that’s human nature.
But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.
Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology.
Ever since I did ‘Hamilton’ I’m really specific with the projects that I choose and the characters I choose and how they’re portrayed. I was meaningful with my craft before, but I think after doing something that can change people, the direction in how I go within this business has changed too.
I can’t write a book like ‘Lamb’ or ‘Fool’ every year. It just takes too much research and craft.
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
Being productive at your craft is important. Being productive in your devotion to grow as a human is essential.
‘Hill St.’ was very good, but it was very impersonal work for me. I wrote about that place as if I was a visitor. It wasn’t what my life was like. It was a great place to learn the craft of how to shape a scene, but I wanted a chance to write about more personal themes and obsessions.
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
For making a good comedy film, you need a good writer whose craft can be understood through the time that he takes to write his script.
After I was cast in the acclaimed film ‘Khuda Ke Liye,’ I thought it would open up film avenues for me in Pakistan and, maybe, even internationally. When that didn’t happen, I decided to use TV as a means of polishing my craft.
Crafting covers so many areas and over the last few years, we have seen a real boom in the U.K. in terms of people adopting craft as a hobby.
I learn an amazing amount from watching television and movies because if you watch things that really work and don’t work, it teaches you so much about what you do for your own craft. I think that if you’re auditioning for a show, you need to know the world of the show, or you can’t represent it very well.
The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I’m doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
I’ve heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we’re the real nitty-gritty actors who’re in a town where being onstage doesn’t necessarily get you anything except your craft.
Anyone who loves the game is going to be sensitive about their craft.
I always had a great history of comics. I’ve been buying them since I was six years old. I was a student of the craft.
Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.
Whenever I have to work on my skills or add to my craft, I do theatre. It’s one place where I can learn a lot as an actor.
Being on set is really hard because there’s craft service.
I just have to stay away from craft services. Having that routine allows me to keep absolute focus on the physical shape I want to be in. It’s also important to allow yourself to have treats every once in awhile, so I indulge in dark chocolate. It’s just a balance, for the most part!
Being productive at your craft is important. Being productive in your devotion to grow as a human is essential.
The key to acting – from what little I know about that wonderful craft – is listening, and interacting with the other person in order to achieve magic. One way to do that is almost to provoke.
Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
As I progressed in the firm, I learnt the craft, and as I learnt my craft, my partners and the firm threw up different opportunities.
I’m an actor because I love acting, and my romance with this craft called acting is too intense. I’m in this business for a very selfish reason, and that is me, and nobody else. The audience loving it is by chance.
Even though we try not to be nostalgic about drawing from old music, I’m always inspired by things like old Cole Porter songs or the words in the Gershwin songs or even Stephen Sondheim, where there’s a real craft to them but it isn’t only that you’re hearing the words it’s that it links so well with the music.
If you’re lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.
When you are in a position of hunger, you can’t say you want to only focus on craft, you can say that in a position of money. You have to make ends meet. If you think you are going to get by without that, it is a tough one.
People who say they’re not nervous – I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at what you do and how long you’ve done it. And what is success in your eyes? Have you separated yourself from everyone else in that craft? Or have you settled amongst the pack?
It doesn’t matter to me where am I going. Language is not a barrier for me, I can go anywhere with my craft, so why not Hollywood?
It taught me something. It taught you your craft.
The most important thing I learned from Dad about show business was never take myself seriously and never stop having fun with my craft.
The only way to learn and hone your craft is by working hard and writing regularly.
I think it’s important for an actor to see the work they’ve done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It’s a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it’s a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.
I’d definitely like to study other things and keep on learning all the time, but I wouldn’t want to do anything else. Ultimately, acting is my craft. I’ve always been interested in psychology and nutrition, but I don’t know that I’d go and make that my profession.
I was really pretentious in a sense and was like, ‘I’m going to drama school to learn the craft.’
My first Hindi film as a leading man was Mahesh Bhatt’s ‘Saaransh,’ which immediately established me as someone who knows the craft.
If you teach someone your craft, while you’re teaching them, you’re going to learn because you’re going to get better at teaching, which is going to make you better at whatever you’re doing.
As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.
There’s nothing better than an educated actor – not only educated in his craft but educated in the world.
You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they’re ready.
You know, at the end of the day, all you can do is work at it, perfect your craft, come in with a great attitude and just respect everybody in the building.
Craft and art and discipline in what you do will make you happy.
Reacting is so important to the craft of acting.
I tell people all the time: get some training and become a student of your craft.
Remember, acting is not a business of glamour. It is science, craft and an art. Read about acting; don’t do it for the sake of fun. Actors such as Paresh Rawal and Naseeruddin Shah are great examples; they are surviving only because they have read well.
I understood the craft of photography when done by an artist is art.
We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to some extent it is, but it is much more dependent on the attitude we bring to life.
In general, for me, a big thing in my life has been just sort of learning what true self-esteem is and what true positive self-image is. And being a dancer, and growing up in that world, you’re so focused on yourself, and you’re so focused on achieving goals, on finding perfection, and working on your craft.
I don’t think I could have learnt as much about my craft working with stars. Just the sheer freedom you get while working with newcomers is exciting.
Master your craft, be nice and stay humble.
The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.
Before, I used to just make songs all day and now, with so much business and other things that I have in my personal life, I don’t have time to sit around and make songs like I used to. I wish I did. I wish I could practice on my craft all day and just be in the studio like I feel Lil Wayne does.
Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career – novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.
After ‘Laila Manju,’ I made sure to go to an acting workshop, and that’s when I fell in love with the craft.
So many go into the business just to be famous, not because they are passionate about their craft.
The Brewers Association, a trade group of some 2000 small and independent brewers, was founded in 2005 to be a ‘passionate voice for craft brewers’ and craft beer, and it has made itself as vocal as the bigger Beer Institute.
It’s sad that people forget sometimes that there is a whole legitimate world of artists and actors out there that work their entire life, every day on perfecting their craft, but yet don’t get any acknowledgement for their extraordinary commitment to their profession.
Irene Nemirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft.
School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It’s filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world – where art meets commerce – it can become quite depressing.
When you first come in the NBA, you have a lot of conversations about saving your money, financially educating yourself, not just trusting whoever it is handling your money, not just having those meetings once a year, and not really putting the effort into learning the same way you learn your craft on the court.
A lot of people are like, ‘So you want to be famous.’ And I’m like, ‘No, I want to be good at my craft. I don’t care about fame, I don’t care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I’m set for my career right now.’
We seek to craft characters who inspire empathy: characters our audience will care for and, as a result, will care about what happens to them and thus will share the journey we have charted. A story, after all, is the character’s journey.
The dot stands for ‘detail’ – always be paying attention to detail. I feel that people take you as serious as you take yourself. I spent a lot of time working on my craft, developing my style, and after I came out of my little incubation, I promised that I would pay attention to detail.
I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It’s a craft, and I’m constantly trying to learn and get better at it.
I think when you look at the quarterback position, and this mastery of the craft we talk about, it really is an advanced degree. It’s like going to med school, or law school, or getting your PH.D. It really is that type of educational effort, on the field and off the field.
As I got older, I went to school. I started doing plays, I learned about the craft of acting, and I started to love acting for different reasons. I think I started to love acting because it brought me closer to people and made me more compassionate.
If it’s flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.
I’ve always loved acting, and I do respect the craft.
I think I’ll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.
I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It’s weird; I’m always taking notes about fiction when I’m listening to people talk about craft.
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
I love what I do, and I love the audience, and I love the fact that I get to do it, and I love, I love our craft very, very, much, and it’s a noble craft. We have a responsibility to it, and to the audience, and to the playwright, and to the message. I won’t ever care less.
The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.
When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it’s really hard to finish a novel.
Both Aishwaryaa and Soundarya are talented and ambitious. They are both daughters of the Superstar and have great command over their craft.
Bruce Lee took his craft very seriously, just as my dad took his stuff very seriously. I just loved Lee’s attitude.
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
I think there are some people who have talent flying out of their fingers and other actors who hone their craft. I am an actor who found their way. I bettered myself throughout my career, and I am proud of that fact.
I think that New York is the city of all cities. There is so much diversity there. I also like that when I go there, I can catch a play or musical and see some of the most talented people practicing their craft.
Everybody has auditioned and failed. You learn from that. It’s how you learn your craft.
And later I thought, I can’t think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.
Celebrity doesn’t have anything to do with art or craft. It’s about being rich and thinking that you’re better than everybody else.
The great thing about ‘Justified’ is that the writers will craft a scene, but if the actors come up with a great idea, they’re 100% for it.
I don’t assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It’s a very different world. There’s a craft involved in storytelling, and it’s a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.
I didn’t aspire to be just a celebrity; I aspired to be an actress… I always wanted to be respected as someone who knew their craft.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
I want to be known for my performances and doing my craft well, not for funny stuff I post on Twitter or whatever.
I am not skilled enough or energetic enough to craft a persona. I just have to be who I am and hope people like it.
The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.
Gay guys know how to craft, and they craft really well. Straight guys, forget it.
Get in theater, really work your craft. Get really, really good so that when people say your name, your name is associated with quality, with integrity.
I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.
Each film has taught me something new – be it about myself, my craft, my profession, people.
In the wrestling world, you had WWE, WCW, and smaller promotions that were like the independents. I look at it as craft beer being the independent beer makers. It’s the indie scene.
Cooking is not a craft to get into for money. The money may come, or it may not. But you must get into it for the craft and the culture.
In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with – by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.
No film survives because of a big name. If a film has to survive generations, it will survive on its content and craft.
Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me – I’m not cringing.
I’ve learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don’t think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is – I’ve learned technical skills and more about the craft.
As the craft re-entered earth’s atmosphere, it was coming in so fast, it heated up the surrounding atoms and molecules, and they became positively and negatively charged, and highly reactive, and began luminescing all around us.
It is a distinct and an honor to work with the august Regina King. I would call her Queen King. This woman is one of our treasures. She’s an actor’s actor. She has craft to burn. She’s a craftsman who knows what she is doing, and she’s got soul.
There are as many routes to writing success as there are writers who got there. My advice, however, applies across the board: read widely, learn the craft by whatever means you can – workshops and writing programs are ideal, but even self-study can work – apply what you learn, and persevere.
My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It’s just like anything else, practice makes perfect.
I think there’s escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it’s done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art.
Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.
It’s still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.
When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there’s no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.
It’s very rare – and it does happen on occasion – where I’ll take a piece of lyric and I’ll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.
I had come to New York seeking my fortune after a few years of honing my craft as a stand-up on the road.
I really love my chosen craft. No matter whether it’s disappearing or disappeared from the mainstream, that’s really been where my mind and heart is.
I have always been averse to theorizing about the art or craft of biography. Like Disraeli’s biographer, Lord Blake, who offers the cautionary analogy of the biographical centipede unsure of her next step because of too much cerebration, I have made it my practice to let the facts find the theory.
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about – police and criminals, the criminal justice system.
Any talk of ‘craft’ makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don’t know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it’s like the first time. There’s no craft in that.
You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted – I’ve always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.
Wrestling isn’t like ballet; it’s not about practicing a routine. You need to focus. You need to concentrate. You need to know your craft.
What’s great about acting is that there’s never a moment when you’re like, ‘OK, I got this, I understand this.’ You’re portraying life, and it’s a craft that only gets better with time – kind of like playing a musical instrument: the more you get to play it, the better you are.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you do. Loneliness is just a sacrifice you make as an Olympic-level athlete.
If I see an audition for a show or a movie, I’ll send a tape in. I attack it. The whole time, I’m booking comedy, so no matter what, I always got that coming in. I’m always working on my craft.
There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience; but both can be informed by the experience of others.
A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.
I believe in doing what I am best at. I don’t want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
Commercial cinema is necessary to get money, but to get respect, it’s necessary to keep coming up with good content and giving a chance to the talent whose craft and skill is immaculate.
I never had a thing for movie stars. I was into the guys who could transform. Sean Penn. Daniel Day-Lewis. The ones who privileged the craft.
Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.
After a certain point of time, life’s practicality hits you. So I got into theatre, did stage plays and worked along with Naseeruddin Shah and Nana Patekar, people who are committed to the craft part.
The first rule of rock and roll is it’s all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.
In theatre or in ballet, the ballerina always passes on what they know. It’s a hands-on craft. You can’t really learn the soul and the pathos of it if you just see a video. It has to be taught by someone who is in the know.
I love theater, and I love that you have to be so intensely in the character and you have to hit that place every single night. It’s just really good training. It was just a very good way of falling in love with my craft.
The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It’s a thing of discovering. That’s when writing is really working. You’re on the trail of something, and you don’t quite know what it is.
I’m really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.
I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller. A great storyteller, in control of her craft, must be the same person when she finishes telling a story as she was at the start. But I want to be transformed by my filmmaking, by the journey I take.
I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, ‘I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.’ That’s such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor.
I’m still learning my craft.
To be fair, when I started doing ‘Verdict’ I literally had no idea what I was doing. I wanted to do some theatre, as I wanted to do something different. I wanted to learn and get an understanding of the craft.
I’m a self-taught actor, which means that I had to learn everything on my own, as I wanted to know the craft deeper and deeper.
The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action – doing – and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don’t submit, you’re going to be out of control. You’ll flip out. The job is to be surprised.
I’m constantly looking for ways to learn and elevate your craft, patience for yourself, and patience for this business. It’s not a fair business. You may be great, but it may take years for someone to notice what you’re capable of because of politics.
Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting ways to do something differently or how to improve.
Writing is something I want to explore. If I were to do it, I would want it to be not a book made by a YouTuber; I would really want to respect that craft of literature and just be an author.
What I loved about the 1950s is that there is an aesthetic to even the average film. The way the camera is placed, the way characters move, the way you dressed the sets, the respect for craft and actors, I do miss that in today’s films.
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft – not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
The odd thing is how, I think, the intensity and devotion to my craft and the intensity of certain performances or types of roles I’ve played overshadow the comedic stints that I’ve had. ‘Darjeeling Limited’ is a comedy; The ‘Brothers Bloom’ is a comedy.
Many times, what people call ‘writer’s block’ is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.
Kodak has always represented innovation that is approachable while delivering the craft of filmmaking.
I like to make things, but I looked at old craft books on weaving or mosaics or whatever, I’m like, ‘I don’t really know anything about that stuff.’
My father was an actor. Both of my older brothers are actors. My younger sister is an actress. For me, that’s my job; that’s my craft. But then all through school and through drama school, I was gigging and running nights and playing in bands, and I just didn’t want to let that go.
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
In fact, I’m very grateful that we were given that time to invest in ourselves and our craft before we were exposed to the public.
I love getting anything homemade – anything that’s from the heart. If you can make or craft your own something, that always goes above and beyond, like, a candle – which is great, but if it’s homemade, that’s so much better for me.
Too many DJs today want to be the headline act without ever knowing what it takes to be the local DJ who’s busting his or her gut to perfect their craft.
You have to train yourself, think, contemplate, and work on your craft every day.
In general, for me, a big thing in my life has been just sort of learning what true self-esteem is and what true positive self-image is. And being a dancer, and growing up in that world, you’re so focused on yourself, and you’re so focused on achieving goals, on finding perfection, and working on your craft.
I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea – an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed to the craft of writing can come together in order to collectively improve.
You may love football, but that doesn’t mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It’s the same thing with filmmaking… everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?
When I’m working with Red One, we all have to do everything, from making sets and costumes to tearing tickets. Forget about craft services! So when I get on a film set, it’s a thrill to be just working as an actor.
I was crazy into performing when I was younger. I was obsessed with the craft of acting, and theatre, and stage. You know the term ‘theatre geek?’ I am the extreme theatre geek.
When you’re an independent wrestler, committing a lot of time and effort into honing your craft as much as possible in as many different places as possible will catch the WWE’s interest as far as the independent level goes.
I don’t think there’s any company that has the same tools as Martha Stewart Living does, and people know that. They really love the tools and, if you have the tools, you can pretty much do the craft.
My son was so excited about me doing three roles, and Jo and my parents loved the craft work and visuals, and I think ’24’ will be the most favourite movie of mine at home, and they are all waiting to watch the film in theaters.
I’m big. I’m strong. I’m fast. I have the hips. I have the footwork. I’m always trying to perfect my craft, and at the end of the day, I’m just a competitor.
Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects of clearing a plate, carving tableside, or pouring wine, and a lifetime to master the emotional elements of service.
The cooking profession, while it’s a noble craft and a noble calling, ’cause you’re doing something useful – you’re feeding people, you’re nurturing them, you’re providing sustenance – it was never pure.
There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense.
It doesn’t matter if you’re big and tall or ugly or pretty. Deep inside, every actor wants to play Hamlet, at least I hope he does, because that’s the craft.
There was a lightbulb moment as soon as I walked in the kitchen and started working. I love the physical action. I love the whole idea of feeding people and bringing people together over food. I love the craft involved.
I don’t sit at home and craft a joke.
I’m really into the ‘classic’ thing – the craft of writing something that will last, that won’t die by next year.
I had some early success with my first film and since then it’s been a grind. It’s clearly a craft that I love, and a craft that I work on constantly, but after so many years, I didn’t feel like I had much to show for that.
I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.
With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts.
For vocational workers, their pay should reflect their skills and difficulty of labour. To be skilled in a craft should be accepted as an alternative path.
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
Craft is part of the creative process.
It’s a joy to listen to someone at the top of their craft.
Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.
Wrestling isn’t like ballet; it’s not about practicing a routine. You need to focus. You need to concentrate. You need to know your craft.
You have to continue to hone your craft.
We’re all in this together – when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.
We didn’t have music videos. You weren’t an overnight sensation. You had to work at it and learn your craft: how to take care of your voice, how to pace your concerts, all that trial and error.
I dare say that if most comedians today, the gifted ones, were to sit down and write, they’d learn more about their craft. But what happens is they get out there before they learn what their viewpoint is, if any.
I always craft my words to the point where I think and hope they’re perfect before I ever begin sketching.
For people who write songs, it’s a gift you’re given. You become good at the craft, but you’re given the gift.
I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.
I honed my craft in the military, because it’s the only thing that got me through it, to be honest. Working on music – being able to come home and work on music whenever I got off – was essential. If I didn’t have that, I probably would’ve lost my mind.
Singing and composing come naturally to me, but acting does not. I have worked at it and attended several workshops to learn the craft.
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession – about a hundred years ago in the last century – it was all about taking risks, it was about doing the job and honing the craft.
Songwriting wasn’t my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift so that you can execute it in more convenient, efficient ways.
The problem most people make with their media presence is they’re trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.
Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it.
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
My generation, we came along, we had to really know our craft.
We should recognise that only around a third of the population can be in internationally competitive jobs. So we need to develop a middle-band craft economy like the one the French have so cleverly maintained.
Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it’s a service – specifically, for a military audience.
As you get older, we have more opportunities, more things going on in our lives that we take it away from basketball and our bodies. If you continue to put the same energy into your body, into your craft, I think you’ll be all right.
There is more to life than a job. I didn’t ever want to look back and point to a bookshelf of videotapes and say, ‘That’s been my life.’ It’s so much easier to write a resume than it is to craft a spirit.
I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.
See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they see movies and television, and they figure that’s all it is to it. They have no respect for the craft. They want to be, you know, movie stars or whatever. And I worry that we’re losing a certain quality, you know?
I think Bellator is the place for me to hone my craft and they have a great selection of heavyweights here. They put on a great card every time so it’s really exciting to be a part of that.
I just loved stand-up comics as a kid. I’d watch them on ‘The Tonight Show,’ and I thought what a great craft it was to come out on stage with no instrument or anything and be able to entertain people.
I think there are so, so, so, so many things you have to be… to do this… you know, to keep going in the music business. Of course, you have to play well with others, you know, and you have to be smart with business and be good at your craft and be healthy.
We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don’t know if we’re experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I’m not sure.
The craft Emmys are kind of the kids’ table at Thanksgiving. You’re not really invited to the big dance. It’s still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.
It’s my belief that cooking is a craft. I think that you can push it into the realm of art, but it starts with craft. It starts with an understanding of materials. It starts with an understanding of where foods are grown.
I know my mindset. I know how hard I work at my craft.
For me, it was much more important to continue to learn my craft as an actor and get a bit of flesh on the bones.
Unlike in the past, when acting in parallel cinema entailed hitting film festival circuits even not fully comprehending the story thread at times, directors are more intent to tailor present day films for the audiences, while introducing fresh concept and craft.
A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
Disco B still rolls with me now. He’s still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft.
I’m always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.
Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that’s why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.
In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.
Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that’s fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.
I probably learned most of my craft from singing to the radio.
I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they’re not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.
I’m pretty good at delivering my songs, but I just want to perfect the craft by creating melodies.
If you’re small and can speak clearly and you’re a cute kid, that’s the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting.
What I noticed is that the lens from which people want to look at ‘Minari’ is just from that Asian-American angle. And I think that can end up being very frustrating. Because the craft of the film, and this film itself, is meant to embody a lot of different things.
I’ve learned things about the craft of writing and about structuring a book and about character development and so on that I’ve just learned on the fly.
If there’s no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.
Prime Minister, I see you’ve already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate.
It’s really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.
In Delhi, I became a serious stage actor. Then, luckily, the FTII acting course began, and I studied there, spent some time working on my craft. In 2008, I moved to Mumbai, and then in one and a half years of so-called struggle, I got my first film, ‘Love Sex aur Dhokha’ (LSD).
The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
The great thing about a big studio movie is that you get to work with the best, the most talented craft people in the world. But you have to be able to communicate, trust, and empower everybody.
I’m really working towards perfecting my craft every single day.
Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It’s not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.
I work really hard on my craft.
All you need to focus on is your craft and how you act; and, of course, script selection, which is a primary reason for anybody’s success because, in today’s day and age, everyone is talented irrespective of fields.
Early inspirations included Michael Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Lionel Richie… Those were the people I actually wound up studying just to hone my craft.
You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.
Meisner technique was different than anything I’d ever experienced. It’s a really great way to be accountable to your craft and to yourself, but also it takes that kind of focus and dedication to learn anything.
The battle between craft breweries and big beer stretches back to the 1990s, when the idea of buying a beer brewed by a small, independent brewery first took off.
These performers that go on about their technique and craft – oh, puleeze! How boring! I don’t know what ‘technique’ means. But I do know what experience is.
A lot of times, you see everyone’s highlight reels because of social media. You don’t know the work that went into getting to that point. This is something that’s going to take time, hard work, and you have to be dedicated towards your craft.
We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months.
Bengal’s indigenous art and craft is widely popular throughout the world.
I read a handful of memoirs to get a sense of what the genre meant. I needed to learn the fundamentals of the craft. I had never written a word of narrative. What is a tense shift, what is point of view? I didn’t know any of it.
You can visualize, and you can try to trick yourself into thinking a certain way. There’s all kinds of things you can do to try to get in the right spot mentally. But at the end of the day, to have real confidence, you’ve got to be doing good at your craft.
My parents have truly gone above and beyond in not only supporting me but also encouraging me to follow my dreams. My dad’s only wish was that I made sure to go to college for theatre and study my craft.
I prefer that we sit down and craft a bill that addresses the many challenges we face, not only domestically, but as a world leader.
I think trolling is a sort of art form, a bit of a craft.
I like to keep morale up and not take things so seriously all the time. I enjoy life and laughs but I’m serious about the music. Serious about the craft of songwriting.
There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined.
I was a stickler. I wanted to learn every nuance to my craft. And that’s not just talking about in the ring. It’s all facets. Production, marketing, PR. I’ve always looked at this business as a business.
I have a chef come in every day and prepare my meals. There is no way I could do the stunt work, stay up as late as I have to, or be outside in the heat if I’m eating poorly. That means I can’t eat craft services!
I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.
I’m pretty sure I became an actress solely because of craft services. When you’re a kid and there’s a lady walking around with a tray of chocolate and other free candy, that’s the best reason to be in the industry!
That’s one of the reasons I got into country music: because of the craft of that lyric and how much you could put into three minutes.
I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.
I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don’t feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain part or persona. I’m not going to cut something out of my life because it’s not ‘my image.’ I want to be open enough that if I love something, I can do it, and it will add to myself as an entertainer.
In England, when we’re at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time – you can’t have second or third takes when you’re in front of a live audience, unlike in film.
You wake up white, and you think about certain things every day. You wake up black, and you think about certain things. You wake up Chinese, and you think certain things – but those things aren’t major. What’s major is that you are good at your craft.
I know stories of Pac, but I was really, really young when he passed. The fact that he was such a thespian, and so passionate about his craft, was shocking to me in a way.
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence – the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day – the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you’ve got something worth saying.
Do theater. Because you’ll develop a craft that you’ll always have. It’ll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won’t go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.
We exalted that Michael Phelps-consecrated water. Rose petals were strewn in Peyton Manning’s path when he retired. But hey, that’s natural. As we should, we admire those in any craft, no less so in sports, who appear out of nowhere to achieve remarkable feats.
To hone my voice, I read everything, from books to cereal boxes, three times: once for fun, the second time to learn something new about the writing craft, and the third time was to improve that piece.
That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn’t realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.
If your only intent is to be seen, you’ll never be seen. If your intent is to be happy, comfortable, genuine, and true in craft, you’re destined to be noticed.
I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft – meaning experience – there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.
My talent is universal, and acting is a craft that can be used anywhere, unless ethnicity comes into play, and then, looks matter.
I lived in Nashville for about five years. It was almost like me going to college for my craft. I immersed myself in the songwriting community there. They embraced me, and I made some real friends but also learned so much.
The people around us are at the top of their craft, and we benefit from that.
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
My old man, he’s done it very differently from me. He had years of honing his craft and years of doing all that stuff before he even had to worry about ‘Game of Thrones.’ So he’s absolutely established himself as an actor without the fear of having to have a personality as well.
Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.
I just try to work on my craft. Try to be as complete a player as possible, and I’ve just been focusing on being a consistent player.
Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.
If I hadn’t been a designer, I’d have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.
In 2008, A.J. Schnack recruited Thom Powers to start the Cinema Eye Honors to recognize the artistry and craft that go into making documentary films.
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me – it was the sublime quality of patience – patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment – which I sadly lacked.
We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What’s important is how the traditional sources of law and legal interpretation – text, structure, history, canons of interpretation, precedent, and other well-established tools of the judicial craft – are prioritized, weighted, and applied.
Hairdressing in general hasn’t been given the kudos it deserves. It’s not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.
The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone… means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.
I knew I could rap a little bit, which is not the most unique way for being funny. The more I did it, the better I got at rapping, and then I fell in love with the craft of it, and the possibility that I was a good rapper was very intriguing.
I like people who are masters of their craft.
I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.
There was a time when craft used to mean anything but the considered, stylish or academic. It was a term of derision. The ‘craft fair’ on the village green was to be avoided.
I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don’t affect your work.
The things that make for a good journalist – or for that matter, make for good journalism – they’ve never changed since the craft was invented.
If your only intent is to be seen, you’ll never be seen. If your intent is to be happy, comfortable, genuine, and true in craft, you’re destined to be noticed.
And we turned off and 30 miles south they’re standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground.
You’ve got to perfect your craft.
For my first role, I had to audition five times. I’ve gotten a lot of no’s and rejections. But I just had to keep working hard. I took classes; I worked on my craft and continued to work with an acting coach and just didn’t give up on myself.
Sometimes, as an actor, you’re so deeply immersed in a part that you lose control of it. If you’re really lucky, a few times in your life it’ll take you somewhere you never expected to go. It really blows the top off your understanding of your craft.
The cast you are working with is important because it involves a give-and-take relationship. For me, when you have strong performers, multiple things happen, the magic of creation happens. That’s where you build the craft.
We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.
Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.
The theater has kept me alive, and it’s allowed me to work at my craft.
I left home when I was 16 years old, and I’ve been living all around the world honing my craft. I lived in L.A. for eight years, then Stockholm, London, and New York.
Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That’s the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.
The key to my perseverance was absolutely loving the craft of acting. I just figured that if I kept doing it, at the very least I would get better at acting. Even if I didn’t become a tremendous success, as long as I knew I was improving and getting better, to me, that was success.
I collect craft. It inspires me.
A great story poorly told doesn’t do anybody any good at all, and nobody wants to hear it, and nobody wants to read it. The craft of it is really more important than the subject matter.
When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.
Sunspel is about British craft and community – both of which are very important to me.
I do love writing. It doesn’t come to me as readily as I think acting does. I think acting is in my instincts. Writing is a craft that I work very hard at. And I have to train and continue to develop.
Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.
Working with people like Deepti Naval and Siddharth Malhotra is always a delight because they understand the craft and the script is their topmost priority.
My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.
Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we’d work all the time, and we’d always get better. But it’s not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do.
And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It’s service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.
Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.
I’m so focused on trying to craft the story that I’m in my own little world with it and that process. The one reader I’m trying to please as I write is me, and I’m pretty difficult to please.
They call me the Magic Man because I’m a classy fighter, a master of my craft, a good-looking Italian kid from Brooklyn who came through a dark and gritty life to find something magical.
You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That’s all I want. That’s all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.
If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can’t carry you through.
Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard ‘Little Earthquakes’ all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
I feel eager to learn as much as I can, not only about my craft but the world and the cosmos and how we got here and whether there’s any purpose to our being here.
My father would take me to auditions and put me in the room right in the corner because he was watching me; he couldn’t get a babysitter. He’d be at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the LES until four in the morning, trying to tell his story and using his craft, but because he had a kid that didn’t let him stop.
I take it very seriously, the photographic craft.
At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.
You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
I want to go make an original movie. It’s all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft.
I love the craft of acting, I love learning, I love everything that comes with the new project; the whole process is totally intoxicating to me.
I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.
I played at different restaurants with my dad for a good year before I started doing anything on social media. I wanted to hone my craft before I put anything out there.
I think it’s a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven’t had the time to learn their craft. It doesn’t matter if it’s acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic… fame is a terrible thing to have.
I am incredibly passionate about craft but am just as passionate about supporting local craft companies.
Chris Messina is amazing, and he’s so serious – he’s, like, a proper actor! He’s got craft! I love to watch him. But not in a creepy way.
Whatever it is you do, study it, learn the ins and outs of it, and really work on building your craft.
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there’s at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
Part of my craft is catching the ball, so I definitely put a lot of pride into it.
We work so hard on our craft, and once we get out of Duke Ellington, there are not going to be people looking for technique. I worry about that a lot.
As a former player, I have a real appreciation for a guy like Aaron Rodgers and how much time he puts into his craft and how good he is doing it.
I would say if you’re young, if you’re a teenager, act in plays, as many plays as you can. It’s an amazing way to build your craft and an amazing way to build your presence.
When people ask me, ‘Are you a singer?’ I say, ‘No, I’m not a ‘singer’ – but I love the craft of singing,’ going in and finding out what that means or why the hell I’m singing in the first place. My thing is really the craft of it.
An influencer, to me, is someone who shares their journey – the ups and downs – and their approach to their craft or the spark that ignites a new interest allowing people to do more and go further.
If you’re entering into fashion in an original way, you have to know your craft, and you have to know your history. You have to be obsessively dedicated. You have to be relentless about making it happen. It doesn’t take a bank. It takes passion, love, timing, and luck.
Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.
I’ve been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I’ve been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.
I be on some, perfecting my craft, just making sure the music is all the way there.
I have a very schoolish approach to acting. I like to do my homework, know more about the character, and study it. It’s all about the craft.
The level of detail and craft is something that’s inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.
In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That’s what works for me. I don’t concentrate on being perfect, but instead put that effort behind my craft and being true to myself. I don’t conform to pressures outside of me. I am confident about myself.
I actually really love working with young actors because they’re so responsive and instinctive, and it’s a much less honed craft that they’re employing.
Perfecting your craft is one of the main keys in being successful.
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.
When I set out to write ‘Sanctus,’ all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.
Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you’re not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.
Boxing is one of those things where you want to be respected for what you do at your craft.
At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I’m known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.
We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public – but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you’ll work and devote yourself to your craft.
Nothing is off-limits. There’s just some things I cannot crack. Politics I can’t do. When I start to talk about it, I just get really angry and super sincere. I have never found a way to craft all of that absurdity into funny.
We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn’t craft them. They didn’t let us.
The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.
A lot of people know that how I came to become an actor, but not many people know that how hard it was for me in those initial years. Being an outsider, I had no insight about the ways of the craft.
Money is very important to me, but its source is important too. As of now, I can say that I will never ever do films that demands me to sell my craft.
I eat a lot. I’m a big sandwich dude. Turkey, mayonnaise, mustard, cheese, yes. I love craft services.
The foundation for me is the songwriting and the craft. All I want is for people to hear the music. Just put me in front of an audience.
I have been in advertising and I know my craft well, but ultimately in cinema every scene has to matter, and that has to do with the writing.
When a character has so many secrets and so much inner life, it’s a joy to play those characters because you can use your craft.
It’s easy to think that craft can’t change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention – not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident.
I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where I could learn the craft, and got paid to learn the craft.
For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I’m taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you’re doing yourself an injustice.
This job forces you to ask yourself so many questions: Do you want money? Do you want power? Do you just want to be good at your craft? I don’t know what I’m doing. I just want to be happy. But I know I have to keep making music.
Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don’t know the craft that well. But bad stand-up is something that could happen to someone at any level in their career.
Michaels is probably the most respected craft retailer on the planet so to be working with them is a fantastic honour, and it will go a long way in helping us boost U.S. sales.
As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
You can have someone younger, faster, but if you have got that experience and that ring craft, you can do anything in that ring.
If a writer is to tell his own story – tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people – if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art – this craft – he must first have been given some hope.
If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It’s always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error.
The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
I have always felt responsible for every character I played, devoting myself to learning everything about the craft.
To make a good film is an art. Gender is irrelevant when it comes to craft of filmmaking.
To make a good film is an art. Gender is irrelevant when it comes to craft of filmmaking.
If you mingle with real people, only then your craft can improve. I spend most of my time outside the vanity van, speaking to people. You never know what you can pick from a person.
I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there’s a huge difference.
Growing up with a famous father, and one who mastered his craft, it’s one of those things where, do you really want to be in the same profession? I can’t imagine the pressure on, say, Michael Jordan’s kids. But for me, I think it’s molded me into the character that I am today.
I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.
You’re going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you’re just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what’s challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.
Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.
I was hired at CNBC TV by a financial news anchor named Louis Rukeyser who had spent decades as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East. He told me I could learn the craft on the job. That was my first paid gig. Before that I was an unpaid intern at CNN in Atlanta.
I worked harder at my craft, and it took some time, but here I am today doing what I want to do, which is entertain people.
When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.
What I am used to is ‘Gali Guleiyan,’ and people talking about my performances, what new I have tried in terms of my craft or the skill of storytelling.
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in ‘Black Mask’ magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.
I take my craft very seriously.
Your number one job as a comedian is to be aware. You’re supposed to understand the temperature in the room more than anyone on the planet – that’s the whole craft of comedy.
There’s no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.
‘Sopranos’ was a fascinating moment, just catching our whole culture by surprise, a fun ride to be on while I’m learning the craft.
All I’ve done since I was young was hone my craft.
It wasn’t stone. It wasn’t welded steel. It wasn’t traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn’t define it in the early Fifties when I was starting out.
Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That’s the relationship between the three.
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
According to ‘Star Trek’ mythos, Starfleet Command – operational headquarters for a flotilla of craft that keep the cosmic peace – is located in San Francisco’s Presidio, in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge (still carrying traffic, even in the 23rd century).
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
All I’ve ever wanted to do is master my craft. I’m a singer, and I want to be a great singer.
It’s a challenge each and every day to just be the best that you can be at your craft.
Technology is rapidly changing our transportation systems, and if we craft smart regulations, these changes can be for the better.
The craft of officiating is taught that people come and pay top dollar to see people like Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, all the stars, and you have to make sure when you blow the whistle against those individuals that it’s a foul that you basically can’t let go.
Acting is something I love. It’s a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don’t think it’s any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.
I’m a big fan of movies, but I’m a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.
I truly am of the belief that I should be nominated and elected ‘Emperor of North America’ and given a shot at being ruler of the universe, and I haven’t had the chance to craft my campaigns for these offices yet because I’ve been very busy with Brock Lesnar.
I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there’s a huge difference.
Women don’t get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don’t get to learn race craft.
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
