Craft Quotes

“I think you have to be very secure in yourself to be a character actor.”

“I have a great deal of respect for the craft of acting.”

“I'm not an intellectual. I'm a craftsman.”

“My job as an actor is to serve the story, to serve the character.”

“The studio is my instrument.”

“You can't just press a button and get a great sound. You have to work for it.”

“The real challenge is to be a good songwriter, and that will last you for a lifetime.”

“I can't tell you the amount of times I've been given a script that is so thin, and our job is to make it thicker.”

“I'm not part of the music industry. I'm a craftsman.”

“I'm not a Method actor. I'm a methodical actor.”

“A writer lives in awe of words for they can be twisted in any way. The writer who neglects punctuation, or misuses it, is like a violinist who neglects his fiddlestick.”

“Without crafts, there is no art.”

“I've been a character actor, which is a great thing to be. A character actor is a character. It's a job.”

“I think actors, at our best, are servants of the script.”

“When you're a fiction writer, you're looking for a detail that will create an emotional effect.”

“Comedy is much harder to do than drama. It's not a lesser art form.”

“For me, acting is about finding the truth of the character.”

“Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with a laugh at the end.”

“The actor is the man who is able to eat his own dinner as though it were the first dinner he had ever had.”

“Comedy is a very, very, very serious business.”