Anne McClain Quotes

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.

I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.

But when you look at some of the other guys who have started with their careers in management, they all started with no experience. You have got to start somewhere.

From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning.

In business, experience is the big teacher.

I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!

But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.

In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

We all make mistakes, and it's not until we make mistakes that we learn.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

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.

You learn from all directors, all these guys.

You learn from everybody.

If you're early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It's not even close. And don't even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.

I think it's very easy when you're a young actor starting out to just let everything unfold around you - you're not that clued up or confident, so you don't have the same opinions as you do when you're more experienced.