Why do otherwise SANE, competent, strong MEN, men who can wrestle BEARS or RAID corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of WASHING a dish or changing a diaper?

Stardom is just an UNEASY seat on TOP of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of FINDING suitable stories, KEEPING in CHARACTER, maintaining illusion.

When a person thinks that you are not competent ENOUGH to do his FILM or WORK with him, one should not ASK for work from that person.

We look in... Germany for a SUPERSTAR. We BEGAN with 10,000 PEOPLE, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The JURY is unbelievably competent.

Actona is a healthy COMPANY with strong VALUES, very competent management and a solid ORGANISATION.

I WOULD RATHER have a competent EXTREMIST than an INCOMPETENT MODERATE.

Quacks are a part of our CULTURE, and we all FALL PREY to them. Who among US can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

What American people and what the markets want is a fair and LEVEL playing-field, where the RULES are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the GAME is not rigged.

What I'm really addicted to is GETTING people to UNDERSTAND that if their KIDS aren't competent readers COMING out of middle SCHOOL, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

I THINK of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started FINGER PAINTING, which probably should be a JOKE but isn't!

What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from DAY one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey', is, I've kind of MADE a concerted effort to hijack my acting career to TURN it into film school, because I've always had the blasphemous idea of becoming a reasonably competent FILMMAKER in my own right some day.

People generally THINK of CONSERVATIVES as competent, and they NEED to SEE that competence in action in DELIVERING the public services that matter to everyone.

I think if you're a competent actor with a GOOD imagination, and if it's on the PAGE, it makes your job a LOT EASIER.

Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already KNOW one will be a challenge. MERELY judging if a programmer is exceptional vs. competent will be very HARD if you are not one yourself. When you do find someone, work TOGETHER informally for a while to test your compatibility.

I think you've gotta be SMART enough to be competent, but you've gotta be crazy enough to GO out there and just let it all happen. I mean, you can rehearse and still not be musical, be TIGHT and not be musical; we all hated that.