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.
