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.
You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
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 never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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 must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
