Quotes About Craft

Your calling is in what you can do without noticing time

You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do--tell stories and entertain.

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ...

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

I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.

I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn't used his art to get girls? What journalists or actors haven't used their craft as well? It's a very human instinct to pursue.

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.

I didn't study interviews. I studied acting.

You see, I've never really studied acting.

I studied drama.

I am someone who food has been a constant in my life, and it's been a passion - it's something that I've constantly studied - and I'm constantly trying to better my craft, and that's good enough for me.

In Delhi, I became a serious stage actor. Then, luckily, the FTII acting course began, and I studied there, spent some time working on my craft. In 2008, I moved to Mumbai, and then in one and a half years of so-called struggle, I got my first film, 'Love Sex aur Dhokha' (LSD).

I'm a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

I didn't study acting.

Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate craft that I would need to study first. So, right now I'm still trying to do certain things as an actor and until I get bored of that or I feel completely fed by that then I'll move into directing.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

I get the most joy out of acting and studying new characters.

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

The art of songwriting is just stumbling your way to something really special, and you don't know what you're going to write until you are writing it. There is no formula. And, sometimes, you really have to work at it and hunker down.

Stunt people are amazing at what they do, but they're not actors.