Teyonah Parris Quotes

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.

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.

You only get better by playing.

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

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.

A lot of players are naturally talented, but you also have to work to improve yourself.

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

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.

I want to get better and better at my craft.

You have to continue to hone your craft.

Perfecting your craft is one of the main keys in being successful.

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

It's not about improving when you play; it's every day, in training, you have to work on every aspect of your game, and that's something I've really enjoyed.

Whatever it is you do, practice your art; practice your trade. Learn as much as you can about what it is you're doing and apply that as much as you can, because the application of it is what is going to mostly get you where you think you want to be.

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

I have to really work hard at my craft.

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.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

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

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.