My dad, he can cook, but he can't cook: it's sort of like 50/50.
A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.
You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.
My limited theater experience was when I was a kid starting out: two or three plays. I was good in one and mediocre in the other. My problem is that I have other interests.
There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.
Let's face it: 'Threatening' people are the only interesting people around. The unthreatening are, by and large, competent mediocrities who take lemming-like aim at careers in television.
Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.
It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.
I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.