I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn’t anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
There’s room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill, if you want to be like the folks on the hill.
In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
I do not know the limits, within which the freedom of my philosophical teaching would be confined, if I am to avoid all appearance of disturbing the publicly established religion.
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.