Skill Uncertainty Quotes

I just used to go to the same auditions with all these other kids I went to school with. I didn't feel like I was really good at acting. I didn't feel like I was a really talented person that needed to be doing this.

Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.

I often wonder whether I would have done as well in painting.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

I love my work but do not know how I write it.

There are some days I take my violin out and it feels dreadful, like nothing is responding, and I want to sell it and get rid of it. And the next day suddenly the skies open up and the sound is glorious again. So it's like a relationship: There are good days and bad days.

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.