Alan Vega 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.

A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't do the research and development. I didn't take it to the next level.

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

You only get better by playing.

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

I want to get better and better at my craft.

Whatever it is you do, study it, learn the ins and outs of it, and really work on building your craft.

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.

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

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

I'm going to keep perfecting my craft and keep getting better.

That's kind of how I see my workmanship: it's how many hours I put in that makes me better.

There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.

The reason everybody is so amazed and enamored with me right now is because I have worked every angle, I have worked every formula, I have worked every equation, I have seen every club, I have seen every performance, I have seen every joke, I have studied, I have done my job. That's why I'm good. It's not because I got up one night and decided I wanted to tell some f - -ing jokes.

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.

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 am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

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.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.

The way I look at tricks is if I really have my mind set on one, I'm going to learn it until I can do it 10 or 20 times in a row. I want to perfect it.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

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

With every passing week, I get an opportunity to improve my acting because I get to do it day in, day out. So a lot of times, I compare it to being a professional athlete.