Ciara Quotes

Everyone knows with a rookie, you're going to take lumps. Even with a first-, second-, third-year guy, you're going to take lumps until you gain that experience. But for me, it was nice to get out there and get the experience and do it. I'm a guy that has to do it.

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

When you first come into the league you don't know what to expect. And then if you do, you're ready, but then it's different when you're playing and getting reps. It's just like anything, you start to do something, play it enough and do it enough then you can get good at it.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.

I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.

Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my first film. It doesn't matter what you know in your head and what you've been taught until you're there and doing it; it's a whole new ball game.

The great thing about a sitcom is that you're in front of a live audience, so you really get in touch with what audience reaction is, but also there are lots of elements of film that you're dealing with, and there's kind of a great boot camp or graduate school mentality to it, because you're going to suck.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don't care. You're basically making it up as you go along.

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.

It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something for a different reason. Everybody has got something new to learn on these sets, and you don't have to know everything, the second you start.

No one can be an expected to be an expert at something before they have tried it.

One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.

There’s a lot of pressure to demonstrate to the public that you’re up to the task, even though you are literally pulling the levers of something while you’re still trying to figure out how it works.

We got our grounding by playing live. You had to fall flat on your face, pay your dues and grow.

My early films look terrible! I didn't know what I was doing. I learned when I was doing it. I never went to film school.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but you learn.

I learned acting while doing my shows. I never joined any course or anything. I just jumped into acting. I learn from experience.

Unfortunately, when you're learning on the job, things can go wrong.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.