Quotes About Skill

I'm not a classically trained actor. I'm not a product of Stavlovski method or anything like that.

I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it.

I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.

I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

Javelin is a very technical sport. I rectified my faults over time. Then I trained under foreign coaches who further rectified my errors.

I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about.

I have this thing. I can rap really fast. I can rap really, really fast. It's a thing I'm good at and I've trained myself to do; it's a thing I do in the Bay Area.

That was one thing my mama instilled in me: to be well trained in the kitchen. Growing up, I was always in the kitchen with her. You name it, I make it: red beans and rice, lasagna, chicken, pork. I am the queen of cooking.

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.

I was not a trained actor.

I'm theater trained.

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

Tap dancers find it very difficult to do anything other than tap if that is all they have been trained in because, again, it's a whole different ballgame that you're constantly working on - bent legs, loose ankles - which you cannot afford to do when you're doing jumps or anything else.

I was trained as a straight dramatist.

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next.