My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

I did direct two short movies. I learned many things and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

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

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

When I got depressed I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

I learned that we can do anything but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do but when you do them. Timing is everything.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

Always desire to learn something useful.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7 and I'll write until 11 then take an hour off then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

I could wake up six in the morning go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it I could record.

You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press you would go completely and utterly potty.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

And I know this happens because I took economics and I'd explain it to ya but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn I must do it by listening.

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.