The first thing I learned about having money was that it gives you choices. People don’t want to be rich. They want to be able to choose. The richer you are, the more choices you...

I’ve consciously taken on material that’s a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. ‘The Town,’ I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger...

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super...

We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

I’ve got to where I’ve always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I’ve learned not to care what other people think. It’s happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

I’ve learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn’t really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes.

Until ‘Scrubs,’ I didn’t have a business manager. I learned everything on my own – and I learned the hard way.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

I lived with a German family. I learned about schnitzel from Ritta Seiffer. When she cooked she’d get the oil really hot so that it sealed everything and in the middle was very juicy. That’s...

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

I’ve learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.

I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood.

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn’t see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I...

I’ve been through a marriage, and I’m still very fond of my ex-husband; but if I’ve learned anything, it’s that relationships are about compromise.

I’ve learned sometimes you just have to take the bad from people.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

I’ve learned how to appreciate what I have. And it’s a lot. I’m very lucky.

I learned a lesson which I didn’t heed: Don’t put yourself in your movies. It’s too much.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I’m no politician. I’m an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I’m acting.

When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned...

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools,...

I’ve learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

Who put the S in comic to make cosmic? / The Self, which is the self of all beings – / choosing to disguise from themselves / that everything is just a game. // With...

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn’t. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice – by work.

As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don’t have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I’m fine. I’m cured. I’m well.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now...

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.

I’m not sure if I’ve learned anything from show business. Life in general has taught me if you’re kind to people, everything gets easier. Being a decent person really smoothes the way for you and...

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string...

I used to wear more makeup, but I’ve learned to enjoy being natural.

I’ve learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be...

I learned to put 100 percent into what you’re doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and...

I’ve learned over the years that the best way to develop as an artist is to make things. So I tell young artists it’s not enough to be an actor anymore, you have to be...

I’ve spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I’ve learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I’m...

Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our...