You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.
Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!
That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.
Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.
I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.
I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
I've been on 'Hollyoaks' since I was 15, and I've grown up on the show. I'm so very fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn my craft in such a fantastic environment.
If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.
I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.
I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft.
I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one’s own limitations.
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.
But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.
The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?
I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.
I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.
Hard core authors are determined about their craft, and they know that building a brand entails hard work. They eat, breathe and live their writing.:
When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors.
I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.
