Quotes About Learning

When you do what I've done - the normal Hollywood way, where you let people do things for you - and then you make certain choices where you have to learn to do it for yourself, which is how you should do it, it caused me to get way behind in stuff. I wouldn't change a thing because it's been a very important learning thing.

It was what I did after school. I'd learn a song in choir that day and I'd sing it, all the parts.

I started out playing 'Chopsticks.'

I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.

Do you know it took me 27 years to understand the C major chord on the piano?

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

When I first started writing songs, I was almost quite embarrassed that I couldn't read music and I still to this day don't really know what chords I'm playing, I don't know the name of them.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

When I'm 18 I don't get any more school time on set, so you only have a limited time to do it. You learn every day, and so I don't think of it as a chore.

I used to do semi-classical dance as a child; I did not have a choreographer, but my mother gave me a cassette to learn from.

It's amazing how much this industry has taught me. It's been one of the hardest yet most rewarding things I chose.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn't know what to do. I was running more but didn't know what to do. I've no bones accepting the fact that I didn't know what was happening in the game.

If you're not learning as a human, growing as a human, you can't grow as an actor. You're just churning things you've already thought.

I'm learning so much about my style just having access to so many things now. Growing up in Cincinnati, we really didn't have much money so it was really about places where you can go to get the most for the least.

I don't know anything about life, but everything about cinema.

I did not know much about cinema and acting.

I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.

I really do believe that the experience of having a child is going to actually make me a much better cinematographer.

I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

Being in a kids' show... taught me so much about who I am as an individual, and I learned a lot through the writing and different directors that came in, and I evolved as an actress and human being, and I really created a circle of friends who helped shape me who I am today.

You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they chose to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an experience and learning. I don't think you can begrudge someone that.

Never ask yourself what you have learned... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you can apply last year's lessons.