Quotes About Skill

There's no doubt about it: I think that my versatility helps me.

Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility.

The league is changing, and we don't have many back-to-the-basket players. We now have a game that requires skill and versatility. A lot of that is about being able to think. It makes all the difference in the world to have a player in there with a high basketball IQ who can make the right decision.

I am not a comedian, I am an actor, and what makes an actor brilliant is his versatility.

Actors on stage, you can go from playing a myriad of roles, from Shakespeare to a Eugene O'Neil drama, and it's the norm. I came up in a world where you're supposed to be able to do three things very well. Act, sing, dance, paint, do something. The emphasis was on versatility.

As an actor, you strive to show versatility.

For me, Ramos is a full-back, but he has the versatility that allows him to play in different positions without no problems.

For me, the focus will always be to show my versatility. And sometimes you need to spoon-feed people to show them what you are capable of.

Big Sean could get on a verse with anybody and probably annihilate them.

Poets these days, like artists and composers, have won for themselves almost unlimited freedom. You can pass yourself off as a painter without being able to draw, as a composer without being conscious of key relationships, and as a poet without making yourself familiar with traditional verse forms.

It really is better to be lucky than to be good.

what fair-minded person could possibly call me "nothing but" a psychopath? I'm very good at board games, too.

It was a touchy problem, and it would call for a rare and difficult combination of flattery and firmness, mixed with just the right touch of compassionate understanding, and I was certain it would be a real challenge to my skill as a Human Impersonator. I

Well, if there was any real reward for complaining I hadn't seen it so far, in a life filled with suffering and verbal skill. So I might as well take what was offered and see where it led.

Sophie did something Shaw had never seen a cyclist do. While still in motion she swung her left leg over the frame, leaving her right foot on the pedal. She glided forward, standing on that foot, perfectly balanced. Just before stopping, she hopped off. A choreographed dismount.

shorthand at seventy words a minute.

my greatest asset, and making sure I never take it for

We all have to be knowledgeable about something, and Cheddar is my specialty.

On the very outside chance that we might play again, you should know that pool is the closest thing I have to a religion. Don't ever throw a game with me again.

Good wood often warps if no craftsman uses it.

Your hands already know too much.

Une langue étrangère, c'est comme un muscle frêle, délicat. Si l'on ne s'en sert pas, il s'affaiblit.

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.