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Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.
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.
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.
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his 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.
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.
I want to write more and direct more, but only so I can keep practising my craft and be involved in the projects that really interest me.
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.
Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.
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.
I think, as long as people are doing their craft at a high level, I'm going to have respect for it and find something that appeals to me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Both Aishwaryaa and Soundarya are talented and ambitious. They are both daughters of the Superstar and have great command over their craft.
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.
My foundation in acting has been serious theatre: Albert Camus, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare. It's really the best medium to learn 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 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.
Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.
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 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.
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.
When I'm in south Florida I'm training, resting, training. I'm working on my craft out here, very tediously. That's what I come out here for.
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.
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.
I don't know where I'm rated. I don't pay attention to that. I'm really so just all into my craft. It's not a contest. I try to play the best.
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.
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 used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft.
Being an actor, your focus is just on your craft and how to make it better, but production is a much bigger task - putting everything together.
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 was going to go and do what I should do as a filmmaker and make slightly larger films each time, learn my craft, make mistakes and solve them.
When you get to Heaven, God points you to the all-Entenmann's craft service and says, 'You can eat all you want, and you don't gain any weight.'
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.
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.
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 always wrote. 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.
We need to get around a table, have a serious discussion about the holistic problems in our immigration system, and craft a common-sense solution.
Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.
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.
I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.
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.
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 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.
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.'
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 want to be like a Christy Turlington, still doing my craft and still killing it. I want longevity and to be able to do this for a really long time.