Montesquieu Quotes

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

I have studied at the school of the world.

I've seen the world and I've seen the bigger picture.

I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.

In a short amount of time, I've lived so much, had so many experiences and met so many different types of people and even lived in so many countries. If I had been in school, I'd be learning about the world from books.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life.

The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

I think that between 27 and 37 was a really big learning decade.

I used to have this illusion that time and remote areas prepare you for the world. Our moms used to think that kind of thing. Well, it doesn't prepare you for the world at all!

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know.

When I was little, I always got so excited about learning - until I got to the actual learning part of learning.

Dad had great people investing in his life at a young age. His mother, his stepfather, his Boy Scout leader, his football coach. That's where integrity is planted, like seeds that are harvested later.

I've learned a lot in life, travelling, living abroad, just in the school of life.

I've been around a long time. I've seen it all before.

All of life is a constant education.

It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.