Quotes About Experience

I was 5 years old when I did my first catwalk and did commercials at 16. I went professional after my studies.

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

I don't really retain much from the first couple semesters of my criminal justice studies.

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

Numerous studies, and my own experience as a serial entrepreneur, have proven that companies with a diverse management team provide greater financial returns to investors.

Academic studies in general is not something that I'm very good at.

After completing my studies, I got into advertising.

The thing I found in correlation with my studies as a history major was that experience taught me you have to figure out your background, where you come from, who you are, and what you want. All of that propelled me into following acting because I had to develop characters as well as develop characters' history which is most important.

Following my studies, I started giving auditions which eventually ended up with me working on 'Premam.'

I did a degree in media and culture studies in London and moved there when I was eighteen from Paris.

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting.

A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.

Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty And The Beast.' I was always singing the songs from these movies, so to find myself in the studio with Alan Menken was an amazing experience. In fact, it was a dream come true.

I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on with him really quite well. For a director who spends most of his time looking down a lens or in the digitisation studio or working out some graphics, he is actually very good with actors.

Salim-Sulaiman have always been my favourite. It's just an absolute pleasure working with them, and there's always something new you get to learn just by sitting in their studio and absorbing all that's happening around you.

I've been in the studio environment since I was young, so I know what to expect.

I still recall how nervous I was when I went for the recording of 'Guzarish'... When I reached the studio, all of them were there - Rahman, Aamir Khan, lyricist Prasoon Joshi and director A.R. Murugadoss.