Brooke Elliott Quotes

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

It sounds a bit sad, but my new hobby is knitting. I love it. I find it really relaxing.

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.

Craft is everything.

My gram taught me to knit when I was little, and then I came across my old knitting tools when I was cleaning out my closets after 'JJ' season one and got right back into it.

Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.

I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.

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

Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?

I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.

You can recognise when a film-maker really, really cares about what they're doing.

I've never stopped writing, never stopped recording.

Julia Roberts taught me how to knit on the set of 'Mona Lisa Smile.'

Fortunately, dance has been what's interested me all my life. So whether I am faced with incapacities or not, it still absorbs me.

I watch my wife knitting, and it's like watching close-up magic to me.

My mother knitted a lot, but I never did; it was no fun.

My Instagram is basically all knitting, my dog, and a little bit of 'The Defenders.'

I always appreciate hard work, and every actor has a different process. I appreciate focus.

If you want to be a songwriter, you've got to obsess over it.

Shiva Nirvana's dedication and patience are adorable.

The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

I work really hard on every character and do everything in order to make it look authentic.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.