Frank Vincent Quotes

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

When I have a nice rhythm going, and I have my toss in the right spot, when everything is kind of working how it's supposed to be, I think it's just really easy, you know, and I don't have to overthink on it.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

I just want to act. I just want to do the work.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

I'll say life is simpler.

I sometimes think less is more. If you cut yourself in too many places, it is hard to execute.

Just because someone may or may not have someone that writes some words for them doesn't mean that, A, they don't have to kill it on the performance, and, B, they don't have to have the ear for what's tight and what's not, which is something a lot of people don't have.

The more you can keep your action and your mind and the ball you are delivering as simple as you can nothing can go wrong.

I've noticed that sometimes when you keep things a little smaller, it's easier to focus on the creative aspects of what you're doing.

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

I just go out there and do what I do and try and hit my spots.

Film is very much about capturing the essence of things - if you feel it, and you've got the right person shooting it, it'll come across. Theater's a different animal; it's physically different and requires a different discipline. In the theater, you're mining the same material, constantly honing the same thing, executing it and keeping it alive and fresh.

There is but one art, to omit.

Complexity is the enemy of execution!

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.