Early Lessons Quotes

Working backstage as a teenager made me realise there's not much glamour in this profession - just lots of hard work. That's a good thing to learn early on.

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

Ridiculously - fortunately - my first job was with Dustin Hoffman. I had a little part in this movie called Tootsie. And he taught me how to watch dailies. That it was very important.

I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.

I remember when I was young, I was watching TV, and my father came into the room, agitated, and told me to start a business. I was eight years old.

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

As a child, my mother had instilled in me a feeling of being born for a purpose.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.