Crafts Quotes - Page 7

• I think theres escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If its done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Art, Taken, Thinking

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• I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.

  Jake Busey

  Perfect, Trying, Progress

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• I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.

  Topher Grace

  Stars, Practice, Actors

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• We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.

  T. J. Thyne

  Causes, Meals, Actors

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• It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts.

  Patti LuPone

  Mean, Paris, Scary

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• The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Determination, Taken

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.373, Modern Library

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• This is some fellow,
  Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect
  A saucy roughness and constrains the garb
  Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he!
  An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth!
  And they will take it so; if not he's plain.
  These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness
  Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends,
  Than twenty silly, ducking observants,
  That stretch their duty nicely.

  William Shakespeare

  Silly, Mind, Knaves

  William Shakespeare (1866). “A Treasury of Thought from Shakespeare: The Choice Sayings of His Principal Characters, Analytically and Alphabetically Arranged”, p.38

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• He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.

  George Herbert

  Shut Up, Shops

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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• Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

  John Milton

  Smell, Enemy, Praise

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• The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Rocks, Order, Rock And Roll

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• First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Confused, Party, Mean

  "Debt Ceiling? What Debt Ceiling?" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

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• I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors understand that that's part of the craft.

  Andy Serkis

  Thinking, Robots, Generations

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• The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

  Kevin Smith

  Long, Culture, World

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• I think that in general - well, at least it's true for me - you tend to put something of yourself into the story as a whole. Not necessarily in any character, you understand. But you've got your own way of looking at the world, and that naturally will affect how you craft a story.

  Sam Lake

  Character, Thinking, Stories

  "Remedy's Sam Lake". Interview with Nick Cowen, www.eurogamer.net. February 18, 2010.

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• I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Believe, Long, Hardest

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• We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things. For as the Rohirrim do, we now love war and valour as things good in themselves, both a sport and an end; and though we still hold that a warrior should have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying, we esteem a warrior, nonetheless, above men of other crafts. Such is the need of our days.

  Faramir

  Sports, Memories, War

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• Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

  Ralph Ellison

  Serious, Conflict, Pursuit

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• I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

  Robert Glasper

  Style, Jazz, Married

  "Listening To Rap With Robert Glasper". Interview with Patrick Jarenwattananon, www.npr.org. August 26, 2010.

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• Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners of the mind, combining the macabre and the sensuous Revealing humanity's secret daydream atrocities. CMW taps into our most excitable of emotions with a blend of fear and human sexuality. Like an erotic car accident we can not look away from.

  Dave Navarro

  Moving, Car, Erotic

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• The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

  David Hare

  Writing, Dialogue, Writing Dialogue

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• I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.

  Michael Haneke

  Somewhere Else, Actors, Television

  "Michael Haneke: The Bearded Prophet of 'Code Inconnu' and 'The Piano Teacher'". Interview with Scott Foundas, www.indiewire.com. December 04, 2001.

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• As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.

  Charlie Pierce

  Memories, Character, Alzheimer's

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• The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that guides them. For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

  David Bayles

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.99, Image Continuum Press

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• I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

  Brooke Shields

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In Europe, I'm recognized on the street sometimes. And that's cool, because I don't have to live there and deal with it every day. Unless you're Stephen King - a great writer, by the way, and anyone who says different knows nothing about the craft - you're more likely to be recognized in America if you play in a soap opera than if you're a novelist.

  George Pelecanos

  Kings, Europe, Play

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

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