Emma Stone Quotes

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, or talking about work, or studying about work, or even learning about work -- the best preparation is work.

I left school, and I went to work in a computer company. I was in my late teens.

In high school the very first job I got was I worked as a cashier in Burgerville, which is this fast food place in Oregon. I kind of grew up to be a spoiled little kid so my dad was like, 'You're going to get a job for the summer!' I was this clueless immigrant like, 'May I take your order? Sorry sir, I don't know what I'm doing!'

I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then became a news writer.

'Animal House' was my first movie, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. I was a sight gag more than anything else. So I can't say it was one of those things where your life changes. When the movie came out, I had to ask for the night off at the bar.

I was in my early twenties. I was 22-ish. I graduated from college and went right into teaching. The first year, I taught in Indiana at a couple schools, and then I moved over to Chicago.

When I was 16, everyone else got a car; I got a motorcycle.

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.

Work-based learning is a game changer. It's like test driving a career, and I have seen it in action with our registered apprenticeship programs for high school students.

For me, I had just come from kids telly, 'Dancing on Ice' was the first grown-up telly I had ever done.

I started at 'The Post' as an intern in 2000 right after I got out of college.

Leaving school or college and heading out into the world of work is never easy, even in good times. It's a huge transition as well as a practical challenge.

I was 22 my rookie year.

The only way young players learn how to get better is by playing or get the experience is by playing and getting out there and doing it.

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

I'm from a generation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Our battleground was where we learned. It's not like the old generation where they used to train and train and train, and then suddenly an operation would come up, and they'd go on it.

My family moved from Massachusetts to Maryland after my sophomore year of high school, and that's when I got the audition for 'Uncle Buck.' I took the train into New York, and I think I did the test with John Candy. Then I got the part, and it was my first movie and my first screen anything.

No one was like, 'Here's how you swing.' It was just like, 'Let's go hit and figure it out along the way.' I always kind of figured it out.

There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.

After leaving school, I worked as an electrician before becoming an actor.

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.

When I went to FC Groningen, I had to take my bike to training - my first wage went on driving lessons. Before I signed my contract, I was 15 or 16 and working as a dishwasher in a Breda restaurant.

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

I had my first child at 21, my first restaurant at 24.

I stumbled into acting because a friend persuaded me to leave my 9 to 5 job and get into acting.