Quotes About Craft

The thing that I've always believed is that you have to follow your passion, and if climbing is your calling in life and your craft, to not do it is a tragedy. I am always going to encourage my children to follow their passions and dreams, whatever they are.

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.

There are so many actors that I meet that don't act enough. Definitely take class, definitely train - that's the most important thing you do. Build your craft. Become better.

I do love writing. It doesn't come to me as readily as I think acting does. I think acting is in my instincts. Writing is a craft that I work very hard at. And I have to train and continue to develop.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

I'm not a trained actor, so there was always going to be a certain amount of bringing my own... I was going to say skills but they're not really skills, it's just stuff that I know how to do I suppose.

I'm not a classically trained actor. I'm not a product of Stavlovski method or anything like that.

I trained in the theatre.

I trained at Juilliard so that I could do all kinds of genres, so that's what I'm trained to do.

I was not a trained actor.

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

I'm theater trained.

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.

I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.

All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

I was trained as a straight dramatist.

I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

I don't aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian - that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

I think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now.