Quotes About Learning

I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.

I am a product of theatre and whatever I learned there helped me emote in front of the camera.

Theatre, for me, is my playing field. That's where I learnt my craft.

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

A theme throughout my life has been the intergenerational relationships human beings have.

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

The thing about the hard times, the stupid times, they make you who you are. And regrets—I look back and ask myself if I didn't do a certain thing that I'm really ashamed of, how would that change the present? What would it erase from my current life? What if I hadn't been such a badass idiot back then? Would I have learned the cost of that recklessness?

Love...is an able master; he teaches us to be what we never were before. —MOLIÈRE

When it comes to problems at school,

I think the best happened for me, too. You, naturally. But a lot of other useful lessons, as well.

You don't need a lot of money to live a full life—all you need is a fertile mind, some books and a good attitude. Books are free at the library, but a fertile mind takes practice.

I missed a lot of life being the perfect student.

regrets— I look back and ask myself if I didn't do a certain thing that I'm really ashamed of, how would that change the present? What would it erase from my current life? What if I hadn't been such a badass idiot back then? Would I have learned the cost of that recklessness? Would you be here? There are things I'm totally ashamed of that I wouldn't change.