Mediocre Quotes

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.

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

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

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

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

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

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.