Quotes About Skill

When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.

No doctor knows everything. There's a reason why it's called "practising" medicine.

I remember when I was 8 years old when I first started playing organized basketball, and the coaches had the kids in single file doing two-line layups and they were struggling to get the ball up there. Me, I'm doing reverse cradle layups with the backhand spins on it, like, jump from the right side and lay it up on the left side backwards.

The purpose of an actress is not to just look beautiful and strut around like a peacock but act, too.

Chris Weidman is a stud.

I am a poker player, but I am not a good poker player. My favorite game is seven card stud, but I'll play hi/lo, Hold 'em, Razz, etc.

Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

I learned physical comedy to a degree that most child actors never will. I really just became a student of it - became obsessed with it, to be quite honest.

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

I studied Morse code.

You see, I've never really studied acting.

When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new calming skill.

I studied piano for seven years and play for my own enjoyment.

I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

I always hated when the studios just kind of said that anybody can act. You look at people like Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda - and I'm just talking about the male actors - there aren't a lot who can act. It's a very special talent, and I wish it were recognized as a very special talent.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

I've gotten to the point where I'm comfortable guarding any position on the floor. It just didn't happen overnight. It came with a lot of work, a lot of film study and everything.

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

I'm able to make out the difference in my cricket since I started studying engineering. I can't explain how or why, but once I've started to do engineering my cricket has gone up by leaps and bounds.

You get better by studying and playing with better players.