Be personal, and original. Try to work clean. Stay away from topical material, as it does not allow you to craft it… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
You have to be ready to go through peaks and valleys along the way. Be ready to sacrifice some of the things… — Kyle Cassie Copy Share Image
I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
I'm not a - I'm beautiful, but I'm not working because I'm drop-dead gorgeous with a fantastic body. I think I continue… — Adina Porter Copy Share Image
I know not everyone is a musician, but it's important to find that craft and put all of your energy into that.… — Charlie Puth Copy Share Image
Do not settle for easy. Do not settle for that first image. Craft it, work it, and make something more out of… — David Burnett Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
There are any number of very hard working people in Hollywood who deserve recognition. Mostly its the artisans and crafts persons -… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit… — John Kessel Copy Share Image
I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's… — Paula Vogel Copy Share Image
Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the… — John Gillespie Magee, Jr Copy Share Image
There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more… — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting. I trained as a stage actor and was… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
As long as you're consistently working on your craft, your heart is in the right place, and you pair that with being… — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I've always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
A lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or… — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn't trying to sell you anything, but… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college.… — Peter Facinelli Copy Share Image
Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster.… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage?… — Alan Ayckbourn Copy Share Image
I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her… — Fritz Weaver Copy Share Image
[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice… — Agnieszka Holland Copy Share Image
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
I think theres escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If its done right, you can craft an… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
It didn't have to be a newfound respect for the craft, I knew that it's notoriously difficult and frightens a lot of… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image