When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.
I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.
I've never seen a film get away completely unscathed like I have 'Animal Kingdom.' There's not a single bad review that I've read of it yet; all through Sundance, all it got was high praise.
Of course nepotism exists, but if star kids are not good at what they do, they won't last.
Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
