Matthew Ashford Quotes

You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.

'As the World Turns' was such a great experience and such a great school for me. It was better than any class I could have ever taken.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

We just have to go to that next class, read that next chapter, help that next person. You simply have to do that next good thing, and before you know it, you're living a good life.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.

I could probably go through our losses in a lot more detail than our wins, all through my career. But you have to be able to move on to what's next, and I'm very process-oriented and next-day oriented.

I've made a lot of dumb mistakes, but I don't regret them at all.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, right? I always figure that as you experience life and things, you usually learn and pick up on things that you can do better. That's how I look at my career over time.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

When I look at jobs, one of the most relevant questions I ask is, 'Is this something I've done before, or is it a chance to experience a new context, tone and relationship?' I also ask if it's a story worth telling and a character with a reason to exist... someone who reflects the human condition.

I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

Every experience makes you grow.

You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.