Chipping Quotes

There`s nothing more depressing than making a movie. It has moments of real joy, mostly later if you like what you`ve done, but making it is miserable -- like chipping lumps off of me. I tend to be obsessive and I`m a total manic depressive. I find it very hard to enjoy things. After "Flashdance" opened, there were lines around the block, full houses, but all I could think was, "Tomorrow, it`s going to fall off!" But also I`m terrified of starting to believe your own legend, starting to believe you`re good at this, that you`re not still learning.

You need to study and work on your craft. If you`re not prepared when that dream audition comes, you are not going to get that opportunity. To me, the definition of success is when opportunity meets preparation. So I really recommend that actors always work on their craft and their skills. Obviously you can`t make a living doing that, but you can get a lot of joy from it and learn and be inspired by the people you`re working with and by your teachers and by the material. As long as you`re still being inspired by it, you`re going to find joy. Then hopefully the role will come along. I just want every actor to know to keep chipping away at it. - On giving advice to beginning actors.

As a coach, I can really appreciate having a group of kids like this. There are a lot of kids out there who are obsessed by distance, and all they want to do is pound their drivers. Our kids aren`t like that. They understand the game. They get it. They realize that the goal is to get the ball in the hole, and the best way to do that is to practice your iron shots, your wedges, your chipping and your putting. If you develop those skills to a high degree, you`re going to beat the bombers most of the time.

I`ve just built a studio in my mama`s old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We`ve recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we`re sort of just chipping away.

Amazingly all I could think of was the bride biting down on the turkey and chipping a tooth or something, ... I tried to think on the spot and told him, `When the turkey`s done, get a pretty little ribbon, tie the ring on the drumstick and present it to your bride-to-be.`

I got a new supervisor. He`s a politically correct, bleeding heart liberal. I believe in what I`m doing. I got to stand up for what I believe in and I don`t think I`m doing a thing wrong. Of course I don`t want to lose my job, but I can`t back down from something I believe in. Like I say, they`re just chipping away at our rights and freedoms.

I spent the last two weeks chipping harder than ever. I probably spent more time in the chipping green in the past nine days than I`d done in the first 20 years of playing.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.