Quotes About Craft

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties or any of that nonsense. Go out, look around, do things.

I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the strength to move on from adversity in my work.

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.

I'm in love with my work

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.

All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start in the business, get success without getting a big head and learn your craft.

I think that acting is no fun unless it's hard. I'm not titillated by acting or being an actor unless I have to work hard.

Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and youll have neither a craft nor a community.