Quotes About Skill

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

Whether it's dance or action, what's important is hand and body co-ordination. When you are a good dancer then automatically while performing action, the co-ordination is that much easier.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

When my brother and me got into performing in the late '40s and early '50s, it was a sensational opportunity to learn from our elders. Every show we played had a dancer, a comic, a juggler, a singer, an acrobat. I came to appreciate virtuosity in all forms of the business.

I started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.

I think acting is the most difficult one among all the performing arts.

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.

Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.

I have many swift arrows in my quiver which speak to the wise, but for the crowd they need interpreters. The skilled poet is one who knows much through natural gift, but those who have learned their art chatter turbulently, vainly, against the divine bird of Zeus.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Sutor, Ne Ultra Crepidam

It's a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

Practicing is greater than knowing." Not better than knowing. Greater.

Psychics are like porno stars," I said. "Anybody can be one.

Those who know how to win are more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Kebawelan banyak kali dianggap wanita sebagai ukuran kelihaian.

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

Dexterity in the depths.