Quotes About Learning

My parents had something to say about everything I did. As a kid, I thought they were against me. Now I realise they were mostly right.

I sort of thought acting was just about arranging your face into emotions. I didn't realise it was about actually allowing yourself to feel the feelings, then letting your face follow. That was a big learning curve.

Everything doesn't have to be perfect, I've realised. You can learn as you go.

When I was 18, and when I entered my family business, I soon realised that it wasn't as easy as I thought. I had to deal with people of my father's generation. Building trust was key to doing business.

As I started parenting, I realised there is no formula to it.

Just getting auditions was rough. But also just learning how to act - when I did my first role, in a film I did which was a favour to a friend, I realised I was really bad at it.

By the time I finished my first three films, I realised this is something I want to do for a long time, learn, and grow in.

I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.

I have great respect for actors like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman who went to school the entire time they were acting. All I did was one small little independent film, and I realised I couldn't balance both lives.

Once I started to grow up, I realised that my parents are normal people and they can make mistakes.

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

Once you are a parent, everything takes a back seat. It ceases to be a role. It is a reality. Once I had Ranveer, I realised that I was cracking under the pressure and that I cannot be a superwoman. I had to open myself to learning.

My first show was in Patkar Hall next to Bombay Hospital. It was a total flop. I was so nervous standing in front of all those people that I completely froze. I forgot all my lines and the audience booed me off the stage. I realised that day that you have to earn the audience's appreciation. They aren't fools.

I eventually realised you don't have to understand every single word, and that reading in your head doesn't have to be perfect. Once I took that pressure off, it gave me confidence.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

I've always been good at realising what went wrong and stuff, and I was always being able to look at the positives from it.

After a loss, you have to reassess a little bit and be realistic.

Education broadens our horizons and enables us to confront realities we'd never before anticipated.

In many ways, I consider those to be my formative years, because when you're in school, you have a distant relationship to the world in that most of what you're learning is from books and lectures. But at Amnesty, I came face to face with realities in a very direct and harsh way.

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.

The day I stop learning and I don't try to make myself better on the guitar, that's the day I hang it up and say, 'Goodbye.'

I Google everyone I meet and I look up designers.

I try not to read Google.