Anthony Bourdain Quotes

All I've done since I was young was hone my craft.

The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional.

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

I knew it would be hard work, but that's the reason you're an actor. If you're a bricklayer, you don't want to just show up at someone's house and put a little row of bricks around their garden. You want to build a building.

Me being an artist working with dancers and seeing how hard they work, they are the first to show up and the last to leave. They work just as hard, if not harder, than me - and they never get credit for it.

I wouldn't call being a chef gratifying in a lot of ways. It's an act of love.

We performers sacrifice so much for your entertainment.

What's really the driver of talent is not raw ability. It's not even just experience. It's what's called 'deliberate practice,' which is to say, if you do something a lot, you get really good at it.

I don't get the credit I deserve but I continue to work hard and it fuels me.

I'm really proud of what I do with Hellyeah, and I'm focused on it.

Just being known for a skill you've worked on your entire life is an amazing feeling.

I think you have to dig deep in every performance.

I have put in more than 10,000 hours perfecting my craft. And I am good at it.

The more you style, the better you get. Don't give up. At a certain point, the magic happens.

It's not enough to have talent. You have to have a talent for your talent.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

It's always nice to have people love the things that you do. But it's a lot of hard work, and people are always passionate, if it's family fare or a drama, it's the same amount of work and people invest everything into that, and when it doesn't come out the way you want it to, of course it's hurtful.

You don't just see and feel the movie, you see and feel every day you worked on it.

An amazing performance is always a reflection of awesome amounts of practice.

I think that training is the key, definitely, and I devoted my life to it.

If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.

I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit down and do. You have to learn and keep learning.

Having worked my a - off over here for the last 10 years really hard, really f - ing hard, to see that unfolding every Tuesday and then watching the interviews, and the Megyn Kelly ... It's just extraordinary. It's quite a horrible situation because something needs to happen to stop this thing [Donald Trump] from becoming one of the most embarrassing scenarios ever in the history of politics.