Crafts Quotes - Page 16

• I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

  Spencer Tracy

  Fake People, Voice, Personality

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• You should let dialogue get as nearly out of control as you can. Characters should say what they say to each other instead of what they mean to say. The worst purpose of dialogue is to elicit information: "You know why we're out on this space station, Carruthers - to save the universe!"

  Robert Stone

  Character, Mean, Space

  5 Copy quote

• We of the craft are all crazy.

  Lord Byron

  Crazy, Bipolar

  " New study claims to find genetic link between creativity and mental illness" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2015.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries, insight, art. We are citizens, as Socrates would have said, & we have it available as our own.

  Paul Goodman

  Art, Discovery, Civilization

  9 Copy quote

• Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it

  Jill Bennett

  Art, Acting

  4 Copy quote

• Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.

  William Boyd

  Art, Book, Writing

  7 Copy quote

• I thought, This is fabulous. It sent shivers up my spine. I thought, What kinds of people are these that would produce this kind of music in a camp? All the prison camp stories I've seen, and heard of, were about the heroism of men. As I researched this and heard the music, I realized that women were heroic too, on just as grand a scale. And their treatment was just as appalling.

  Bruce Beresford

  Men, People, Fabulous

  7 Copy quote

• Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself blind. Trust the excitement that builds within you when the idea is good and the writing is superb. You can do it, but that's the hell of it as well as the exultation of it. You have to do it.

  Elizabeth George

  Art, Silly, Writing

  5 Copy quote

• If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need to learn about craft so that the next time you pick up a contemporary short story, you're reading it not as an abstraction floating in formaldehyde, existing simply for the theorist's dull scalpel to saw on, but as a concrete thing constructed out of words and shaped by syntax, brought to life by a writer who made several thousand choices, some large, some small, before letting that imperfect beauty, the story, walk on its own two feet.

  John McNally

  Reading, Writing, Two

  8 Copy quote

• The creativity is just something that, I don't know, you work very hard at, but part of you says that you were born with it. It's a craft like every other, you have to keep sharp and you have to be aware of your surroundings.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Creativity, Born, Surroundings

  "Jon Bon Jovi The Businessman". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2008.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

  David Brinkley

  Travel, Strong, Home

  9 Copy quote

• Be critical of but not brutal with your writing. If something isn't essential, get rid of it. Remember that good dialogue can serve a whole passel of purposes in your novel, and to overlook one of them is to overlook one of the tools of the craft. Like hitting a nail with a screwdriver, if you know what I mean.

  Elizabeth George

  Writing, Mean, Nails

  6 Copy quote

• I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and the time it takes to really nurture something and put a lot of effort into the details.

  Christina Aguilera

  Believe, Effort, Details

  "Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton and Pharrell Williams Talk The Voice". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 24, 2015.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within a framework where those things are, to some degree, taken out of your hands.

  Jack Nicholson

  Taken, Intelligent, Hands

  5 Copy quote

• Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

  Anne Sexton

  Writing, Tricks

  5 Copy quote

• The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Writing, Creating

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.

  Xavier Dolan

  Philosophy, Style, Dogma

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know how I could beat myself: by not being disciplined, by slacking, by not dedicating myself to my craft, by not working hard, by not listening, by thinking I know it all - short like that.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Thinking, Listening, Slacking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  76 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's how I see myself as an actress. I may not be the best in the world, but I love my craft more than just about anything, and I will give everything I have to it, whatever the cost.

  Anne Hathaway

  Giving, Cost, World

  Interiew with Chelsea Handler, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2011.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that's run through my work from the start.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Running, Past, Choices

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Independent, Differences, Magic

  Source: deadline.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's an inherent responsibility actors feel when portraying something that actually exists in the world. It's arguably something that not all actors would agree on because this is a craft, but for me, it's the emotion of what a character is going through that makes the performance what it is. We have a responsibility to bring those emotions to light.

  Monica Potter

  Responsibility, Character, Light

  Source: www.etonline.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.

  Walter Mosley

  Painting, Bunch, Painter

  Source: bigthink.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, "What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?

  Ronald Reagan

  Diplomats, Foxes, Passed Away

  Address to United Nations General Assembly, September 21, 1987.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted. And because the words are written by somebody who knows how to craft words and draw on those things and convey those feelings. That doesn't mean they're dishonest. But it also doesn't mean that it's all just pure primitive emotion spilling out.

  David Byrne

  Mean, Feelings, Records

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source