Quotes About Craft

I hate to debunk the myth - kids don't wanna hear it - but as songwriters, you have to polish your craft a little bit and hone it as much as possible.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA.

Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he was in character. That sounds superficial, but it's true, and look at the results.

Admittedly, I possess virtually no expertise in science. That puts me in exactly the same position as most dogmatic environmentalists who want to craft public policy around global warming fears.

Writing is art.... it reflects a creative process of experimentation and self-expression.

The German word for tatting is Schiffchenarbeit meaning 'the work of the little boat

I'm not calculating enough in the way I approach writing.

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

As actors, when we keep working every day, after a point of time, we just know all our emotional cards and how to play them.

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.

I'm an actress, not a celebrity.

The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

Acting is always a challenge.

I really enjoy playing a challenging role.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into that category, it means you're working. So that's good!

Every actor is a character actor.

I'm a character actor, always have been.