Michael Landes Quotes

I always try and take something from each job.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

Today, when I hire, I look for people who want to be trained and molded.

When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

'One Tree Hill' was a great learning opportunity for me, and I'm excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

I learned more on 'Spirit Warriors' than I think I have on any other job.

To me, all those jobs I did [roles] have been amazing experiences for one reason or another. I got paid and I learned something. I think that's what helped me carry on because I've never really given out that energy of, "oh, I've lost my chance" or missed it in some way.

Every little opportunity and chance that I get to be on a set, to be a director, to utilize the skill sets that I already have and to learn what I don't know, and to see how I can improve upon that is just a really great opportunity for me.

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

Definitely working on 'Deal or No Deal' was a learning experience, and it helped me to understand what I would rather be doing.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

I was really lucky that, through my 20s, I got to work with some amazing people, and I tried to sit back and watch and learn.

But that we didn't have the level of experience in terms of working in the industry so you weren't sure and you needed to see it and this is an industry that the more you work the better you get and that the more opportunities you have the better you get.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.

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

I've been taught by everyone I've ever worked with.

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.

I think you live and learn every day on the job.

I learn something every time I go to work with a veteran. Every single time.

Broaden your work experience - either within your company or through your job progression in other companies.

Ultimately, I want a career where I get to try as many things out as I can.