I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.
I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.
I've learned not to buy into what other people say. I've learned not to put dreams in other people's hands.
I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.
Everybody has their own approach. I don't adhere to any one philosophy. I learn a lot from life and people - watching and other people watching.
I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.
I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.
I watch basketball all day every day. So when I'm watching the games, I watch it - I just enjoy watching basketball - but when I'm watching other people play, I'm really just watching as a student trying to figure different things out.
In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.
I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.
Watching films I'm in is always a bit odd, especially when I'm watching them for the first time with other people. It's hard not to see my faults.