Quotes About Skill

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

To be very honest, I cannot drape a saree myself. I have never draped one on my own, ever. But it has been done on me so many times, that now I have memorised all the steps, and if someone challenges me, I will surely be able to do it.

The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

We have been playing every summer on clay since I was five years old, so it is an easy surface for us in Belgium.

A lot of times I'll see guys who are nowhere near the level of the board they're riding. They might love surfing and love how it looks, but you really have to work your way up. It takes eating a little humble pie at first, and stepping back to equipment that might be a bit slow, but do it.

It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle's success.

On the manufacturing side, surfing was a lot harder than sailing. You had to find guys who could shape, who could glass, and you're looking for good people among all these surfers, you know. Keeping the quality up was always a problem.

I started surfing at 10.

I don't have to talk to a surgeon to play a surgeon, you know what I mean?

My father's a dermatologic surgeon; my brother's a surgeon.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield.

I put in the same hours to get good at this as a surgeon who went to college. It's just a much less important job in the realm of society.

Economics is not brain surgery.

You cannot drive the car if you do not have a driver's license. You cannot do brain surgery if you are not a brain surgeon. You cannot even do a massage if you don't have a license.

I never thought make-up was like brain surgery.

I love playing music and I'm serious about It. But It's not brain surgery.

Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery.

Making records is not brain surgery.

I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.

I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.

Surgery is a complicated thing to talk about, but I guess it could also be a dangerous thing to play with if you're not very secure about what you're doing.

First of all, you want to make sure you find a doctor that is a board-certified specialist in whatever that field is - whatever it is - whether it's plastic surgery, facial plastic surgery, ocular plastic surgery, brain surgery, whatever it is. And two, if they do a procedure, you want to make sure they do a lot of it.