I have been taking pictures for a long time but not without learning properly. I have learnt it from Himanshuu Sheth.
What I’ve learnt is never to work with the person you are in a relationship with because sometimes you need a break.
I’ve learnt to listen. I don’t think I always did listen.
I’ve learnt that over the years, sometimes I was caring so much about how other people felt, I wasn’t standing up for myself and I wasn’t caring about how I felt even when people were straight up bullying me online.
You need to walk the line of what you preach. I have learnt that over the years.
I grew up in a world with my father where you learnt to iron, you learnt to cook, you learnt how to clean the toilet… I want my children to be the same… I want them to be anywhere in the world and be able to cope.
I was drawing before I did music, but me, I’m a dilettante. I jump into everything until I find one thing that I enjoy more than others. Rap was something that was always there because my brother used to rap – piano and musical instruments is something I learnt on the way.
People keep asking me where I learnt acting. And I say that there is no special school for acting or drama where you can go and learn.
Growing up, we visited Devon and Cornwall where I learnt to surf and had my first horse riding lesson. We stayed in caravan parks and I have fond memories of Paignton and Newquay.
At times, when everything is good, you enjoy your peak, but you are sometimes not able to differentiate between right and wrong – everything seems to be good even if you know it’s bad. So this is what I have learnt.
I have learnt three things from Barry John which are applicable to life, too: Don’t expect anything from another actor, one shouldn’t judge, and one shouldn’t block things.
In private companies that are successful, the management have learnt to put their staff first, customers second, shareholders last.
In the day, I wear mascara and tinted moisturiser – although I’ve learnt that if I’m getting my photograph taken, it’s better to apply more; otherwise, I look really, really tired.
I respect opinions, I don’t give opinions on them. I learnt to respect them. And I also have a very clear opinion on Rivaldo. He was a great player and the image that comes to me is of him controlling the ball on the chest and scoring in Barcelona. The most beautiful thing in this world. That’s my opinion.
I’ve learnt that you never know what is around the corner, so it’s best to enjoy the ride.
I’ve learnt that you need to have a thick skin, lots of patience and be consistently good.
I learnt a lot from the directors with whom I have worked like Sudhir Mishra in ‘Daas Dev,’ Prawaal Raman in ‘Main Aur Charles.’
I have learnt a lot about theatre, and I would like to know the same about film.
Singing is something that I have learnt. I have given exams for it.
Maybe if I was born in Kosovo, I might not be where I am now, so I need to thank Switzerland, of course, because I went to school there, learnt to play football there, and started my career there.
I’ve been canyoning, snorkelled a shipwreck, and learnt to Irish dance, all in the same week.
I can fix dishwashers. I was brought up in a castle with no money and lots of imagination. I learnt a lot about plumbing at an early age.
‘Baahubali’ has definitely increased hopes for a lot of regional filmmakers. After all, what I have learnt is that it only takes one ‘Baahubali’ to enter into the audience’s hearts and cross the boundaries.
I have learnt sketching, drawing, singing, dancing, rifle shooting, paragliding.
I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.
I learnt what I am not good at: listening, staying focused, turning up on time, following orders… I realised that I was going to have to pull off something special, something different.
I have learnt to respect others opinion more.
I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn’t even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
During the shooting of ‘Manthan,’ I lived in the hut, learnt to make cow dung cakes and milk a buffalo. I would carry the buckets and serve the milk to the unit to get the physicality of the character.
I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
I have learnt to enjoy my own company because I have lived alone many years.
A male can be a boy, a man, a love/husband, a father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather, but they don’t have any knowledge what’s happening inside a woman’s body. That’s what I had learnt in my early married life.
In the IPL, I learnt from Dale Steyn. Our bowling styles are quite different, but he is a great bowler, and you can always pick something from the way he bowls. He has given me a lot of tips during matches, which I have tried in my bowling.
I learnt to manage my own money, a quality which I am working on since a long while now. I invest most of my money in myself either in learning and/or travelling.
When I see people with an interesting gap year, if they can explain it, if they can justify it, if they can show what they’ve learnt from it, it’s sometimes more profitable or more intelligent than having been through a traditional, continuous race from high school to the end of university.
Now I am also friendly with people who are not so nice to me. From what I’ve learnt, it’s nice to be friendly. It’s nice to make people feel good about themselves.
Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
I don’t think there will ever come a time that I can’t learn from my parents, but there’s something wonderful about getting to the age where you can role-reverse and share exciting and interesting things that you have learnt, too – even better when it’s a shared passion.
I would type in things like, ‘How to play beginner songs on guitar,’ and one of the first I learnt was ‘Hey, Soul Sister’ by Train. I taught myself these chords I didn’t know the name of and slowly started to get the hang. I was obsessed with it.
You don’t necessarily get the background of a character every time, So, you have to create it mentally and write about it. This is something I learnt from Geetanjali Kulkarni with whom I worked in ‘Photograph.’
As actors, we want to show our acting prowess but one has to understand what to show and when to show. I learnt very early in my life that it is not required to be in the forefront all the time. There is a moment that belongs to you but when you are not needed, you need to disappear.
I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn’t.
I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.
At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
I have been waiting for a film like ‘Maximum.’ I have learnt so many things while shooting this film. The entire cast has been a pleasure to work with.
I learnt to swim at the age of four or five. My parents took me to a club where you go from learning to swim to competing.
I have worked really hard to reach where I am – I worked hard on my Hindi and diction because I am a Parsi and Hindi is not my strong point, and I’ve also learnt Tamil and Telugu because I want to get my lines right. I want to be known as a performer.
Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no money. Where there is no money, there are no officials with fingers in the pot. The lesson to be learnt from this is simple. If we want honest sport, we have to stop watching it.
I am not a trained singer, but I used to sing for my father’s theatre troupe and that’s where I learnt the ropes of pitch and rhythm.
Like every actress, I, too, had movies that got stuck, but I have learnt to always look at the best in every situation and to give my best to every situation.
As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.
I was fortunate enough to interact with him when I played for RCB in IPL. I learnt from AB as to how he prepares for a game. I get amazed by the kind of strokes he hits and the time he has got to play those shots.
I learnt in South America and in Africa that people who have really big problems in the ghetto always keep a sense of humour and remain positive. If not, you go down.
I’ve learnt from my life experience.
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can’t be learnt in lecture halls.
I had to figure out a different way of walking to ease my journey to the top, surviving in mountains, and more importantly, I learnt patience.
It means a lot to me to be from London. Obviously, it’s where I spent the majority of my life, it’s where I learnt a lot about different cultures and different people, and it toughened me up at times.
