Mediocre Quotes

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.