Tom Sizemore Quotes

In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set.

I knew that acting is like anything - you learn from doing it.

I look at sports entertainment/professional wrestling, whichever you want to call it, I look at it as never done. You're never done learning or getting better or listening, and never done honing your skill.

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

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practised.

You become a great writer by writing.

I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

Acting is a growing tick muscle. I really believe that it's similar to being a musician in that the more you practice it in any capacity, as much as you practice doing it every day, the better you get.

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.

Acting has been very useful to me.

The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again.

I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

I've done a couple of series before, and what I like about TV is, as an actor, you get that chance to practice all the time, and that's really how you grow.

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's like bull-riding. You can't do it once, you know. You've got to practice it and practice it.

I write, but I also act.

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

I'm always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in 'El Gringo;' it shows in the new 'Universal Soldier.' You can't rest on your laurels; you've got to keep improving.

I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.

It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working.

I always say that practice gets you to the top most of the time.