Anthony Jeselnik Quotes

What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won't be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.

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.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.

I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.

I'm one of those guys who stays behind after practice to try and get better.

My game is getting better all the time. I'm consistently working hard, and I feel like I'm always doing the right things.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We'd spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year's show.

I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

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.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

Keep enjoying it, and if you do that, then you are going to get better.

Be patient, work hard and consistently, have faith in your writing, and don't be afraid to listen to constructive criticism.

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

I'm happy I was able to stick through it and was being very disciplined with what I had to do, because I know eventually hard work will pay off. It's only a matter of now just trying to make sure I get matches under my belt and I feel more and more comfortable playing matches.

One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'