Quotes About Craft

I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100 000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.

They were all in bed before daybreak. And they called themselves writers? Amateurs.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

In the end, and done correctly, writing's just another pathology.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

All craft orbiting Tartarus had an orbit permanently locking them to the nightside.

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written.

Embroidery entwined

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don't know the craft that well. But bad stand-up is something that could happen to someone at any level in their career.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

The work of acting, in and of itself, is something that is infinitely enjoyable.

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.

You cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

I feel acting needs professional training. Very few actors are inherently talented.

When a character has so many secrets and so much inner life, it's a joy to play those characters because you can use your craft.

The thing I like a lot about acting is I'll never learn enough. I'll never know it inside and out.

Well as an actor I think i try to do my best and play the characters that inspire me and challenge me.

I go about my craft as a professional and learn ways to get better, trying to carry myself in a way that I think can inspire others.

Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.