Marco Silva Quotes

Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

A positive impact stems from our admission that we were wrong or our thinking was wrong. 'I'm wrong' are two little words that can help improve our own positive attitude.

It doesn't matter how much you already know. It's about showing humility and a willingness to learn; not just in movies, but in life in general.

When an actor thinks he has arrived and become the best one, that's when your downfall starts. I will always strive to do better than in my last film.

I didn't know how to act, but I was open to learning. I was not delusional that looks would help me sail through.

I was very ambitious as a young actor, but I wasn't good at being ambitious.

I'm a coachable person. I don't like to lead myself. I've been taught by great people, and I was able to listen to them.

I try to take everything in my stride and remain humble, and to enjoy playing as much as possible.

I just try to be the best version that I can be, day in and day out.

I don't try to come in and act like I know it all, and that's why I put the extra work in of watching film, getting an understanding of what you want from personnel, each player.

Championships are mythical. The real champions are those who live through what they are taught in their homes and churches. The attitude that 'We've got to win' in sports must be changed. Teach your youngsters, who are the future hope of America, the importance of love, respect, dedication, determination, self-sacrifice, self-discipline and good attitude. That's the road up the ladder to the championships.

I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.

Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.

The day you become humble is the day you become successful.

In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.

It is necessary to be humble in order to learn.

I wanted to become an actor and I knew that if I was really going to do it, I needed the training. I was not one of those people that was like, "I got it." I was like, "No, I don't have it yet. I need work. I need help fixing myself."

Watch who you have around you, and focus, work hard, and be humble, and try to be good.

I take criticism positively, and I keep trying to develop as an actor.

Luckily, I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.

I love the term 'young actress' because it just means that I don't know everything yet, and I hope I never do. I won't. I won't ever know everything.

I am not going to look too far forward - I've still got a lot to learn.

I'm still growing, still learning. I'm still open and vulnerable enough to know there's much more to be taught to me and learned by me. I hope I don't reach my pinnacle on this earth where I think I know it all.