Browsing Topic Best Brain Surgery Quotes

Acting’s entertainment. It’s not brain surgery.

Economics is not brain surgery.

I’m an actor – it’s not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won’t ask for their money back.

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.

One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

When you’re younger you have a lot of ideas and you’re probably more insecure, all those things. I work with young actors now and I see their insecurities and I make fun of them. I don’t make fun of them but I make them laugh, because I know what they’re going through. When you get older you think ‘It’s only a movie after all, it’s not brain surgery.’

The interesting thing with acting, actually, is that you get to be so many different people that you get to do so much research on so many different things that I’ve learned so much about brain surgery and about astrophysicist-type of things and traveling to amazing parts of the world.

I think I’m still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain’t brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

I’m not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely – it’s like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I’d be willing to. But I’d do brain surgery the same way. I’m always up for something new.

What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?

When you’re making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It’s not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along.

Brain surgery is not like politics and vice versa.

Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It’s not brain surgery.

Most of the really good songs are dead true. … It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I’ve tried to make stuff up it just kind of falls flat. So the majority of my work is something that happened to me, I saw happen to someone else, or a friend of mine told me happened. There is a certain amount of theatrical and poetic license. People are supposed to like it, that’s why you’re doing it. It’s supposed to be fun. It’s not brain surgery, it’s heart surgery. They’re just songs.

Writing is not something you can do or you can’t. It’s not even something that ‘other people do’ or ‘for smart people only’ or even ‘for people who finished school and went to University’. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training – get your hands dirty – and make some mistakes.

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the ‘self’ see the ‘self’ with any objectivity?

Don’t cut bangs with a hatchet. Don’t do brain surgery with a pickax.

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It’s not that relaxing. But that’s the discipline.

There’s the whole myth about rocket science. It’s really not that hard. It’s not brain surgery.

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting…wonderful!

With all due respect to the world’s great drummers – it ain’t brain surgery.

Soccer isn’t brain surgery, have fun.

People know where romantic comedies are going. It’s not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they’re doing it differently. They don’t do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

This isn’t brain surgery; it’s just television.

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

It’s not brain surgery. It’s not nuclear physics. It’s television. It’s only television.