Chico Buarque Quotes

I am just an apprentice.

I like to think I'm handy, but I failed at being handy many a time.

I'm far from being a consummate artist. I mean, this is just my first album, and the work is very new. I'm just beginning, and I'm certainly not worthy of demigod status. There's absolutely no danger of me reaching that.

I couldn't imagine a more incompetent politician than myself.

I like amateur things.

I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

My name is new in the field; and I suppose I am not the first choice of a very great many.

I think I've cornered the market at playing ineffectual. I think I'm quite accomplished at it.

I am not flash at all really, never have been.

I am by no means an expert in basketball.

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

I always feel I'm an amateur. I don't most of the time know what I'm doing.

My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

I never aspired to be anything. What I've done is beyond my wildest.

I'm a minor, stupid talent compared to my brother [Joaquin].

I'm an older, wall-eyed, overweight, tweedy writer who has been lucky enough to be asked to play various iterations of himself in a certain realm of popular cultutre. That gives me great joy and excitement, but I don't go to the media saying, "And I'm also the world's greatest actor."

I know I am no better than anyone else in this world. I'm just an actor, that's nothing special. But I'm not into anything bad. Just blackjack.

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

I'm the master of low expectations.

My contribution to film has always been negligible.

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.