Victoria Abril Quotes

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.

Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what it's all about.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

You can find a mentor; you have to ask questions, you have to show interest in what the other person is doing. You have to have curiosity - I think that people appreciate that and will want to help you.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

Listen and watch the world around you. Don't be satisfied with answers others give you.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

I keep an open mind.

Always be listening and learning.

I'm self-taught. Even today, on the sets, I probe the lightmen, the stunt artistes... they are from a period I've not seen; I can visualise it through them.

When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'

One thing I've learned is that you have to be open-minded.

You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of childlike second-level innocence to bear upon all situations, if you are going to be of use and you are going to really learn from the situation or the people.