Danny DeVito Quotes

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

I always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

I was a good student in school.

All intellectual superiority is the fruit of active effort.

It doesn't matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

I have the drive to spend five hours a day to teach myself a skill.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z.

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

I didn't study; I live.

There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.