This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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 people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
There's so much truly putrid advertising out there it's embarrassing. But not all advertising is bad. Some of it is really quite mediocre.
Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
In the apocalypse, I think those average, mediocre folks are the ones who are going to live.
A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.
Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay.
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.
The usual key to getting films made seems to be a producer's terrier-like determination not to let it go. Unfortunately, such producers often seem prone to sinking their claws into mediocre projects.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their friend, they don't want to be threatened by you, you've got to be warm, you've got to be not too smart, not too pretty, not too anything.
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are better than mediocre ones is smelling new public concerns over the horizon before they are picked up by polls - before the public even knows to call them 'issues' at all.
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.
Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
I'm not the smartest guy you've ever met, or the hardest-working. I was a mediocre student. I'm not technical at all - I can't write a word of code. What sets me apart, I think, is a tolerance for risk and an intuition about what will happen in the future. Seeing where things are headed is the essence of entrepreneurship.
