Denis Leary Quotes

Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.

It's harder to work with people who are not as dedicated to their craft. It also leaves you a better actor when you finish the project, since you always feel like you've learned something.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.

I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

It taught me something. It taught you your craft.

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

You have to continue to hone your craft.

I'm one of the guys that thinks you have to spend a lot of time at whatever your craft is in order to sustain it, and in order to get better at it.

You've got to perfect your craft.

It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be a real guitar player.

I just want to keep working with great actors and try to be good at what I do.

I have to really work hard at my craft.

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.

It's just the more you do it the better you get, or at least that's how I feel in my case. I think it's a combination of confidence and just having done it this long and just learning. I'm always learning. I'm still honing my craft.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.