Quotes About Mastery

I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

It's like after uni when you go to do a master's. Italy is like that for defenders.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

I don't want to be jack of all, master of none. I want to focus completely and excel as an actor with every project.

Jack Nicklaus learned how to play in major championships and I think that was a massive thing. That was half the battle.

I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game.

The best way for me to teach myself an instrument is to just jam on it, and sound awful sometimes, and sound great other times.

Prince is from the school of James Brown, and I love James Brown because of all the great rhythms he plays.

I found, going to Japan, working in the dojos, brushing up on the fundamentals, that's where I really mastered what I was doing.

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.

I watched a lot of Jerry Rice's film just to learn how to run routes, but it was so difficult to imitate him, and he didn't play with the same body language that I wanted to play with.

Jerry Rice, he's one of the best to ever do it.

If you have the opportunity to watch Nathan Fillion or Jim Carrey do a scene, it's like getting a Ph.D. in acting.

I love Jimmy Bryant, and I love Albert Lee. Roy Clark. Chet Atkins. I love those pickers.

Dave Mackay was one of the best I've ever seen. Jimmy Greaves was the greatest goal scorer, and George Best was just the best. The greatest.

Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.

I could talk for seven hours about Johnny Depp. There's no one like him. He has this amazing ability to watch something and then pick it up and do it, within seconds. He'll hate me for saying this, but I don't care. I'm going to say it anyway. He's Fred Astaire. He's this genius dancer. He says that he can't dance, but he can.

Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.