Top 100 I've Learnt Quotes
#1. I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
Zooey Deschanel
#2. One thing I've learnt recently is that blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make yours shine any brighter.
Zoe Sugg
#3. I've learnt that eyes don't change. No matter how old or beat up you get, your eyes stay the same.
Eloise Dyson
#4. I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.
Roger Moore
#5. I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.
Mark Haddon
#6. You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.
Tony Blair
#7. I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.
Sarah Snook
#8. I've learnt something more. The expectation of a body can last as long as any hope. Like mine expecting yours. As soon as they gave you two life sentences, I stopped believing in their time.
John Berger
#9. Collin Jackson was a little before my time and he was a really good athlete. I've raced with him, but he's now retired. He's a really good role model and someone that I've learnt a lot from.
Liu Xiang
#10. I've learnt that there's a soul mate somewhere in this world. Till you don't find that person, the search goes on.
Preity Zinta
#11. Conditioning was something I always shied away from, now I've learnt that training never stops.
Mark Donnelly
#12. You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
Bear Grylls
#13. I've learnt that, sometimes, how others see you is not the same as how you see yourself. I've learnt about how you can be multitasking - and sometimes other people see that you're multitasking. And that's not very nice for them.
David Miliband
#14. One thing I've learnt in life is that you only know where things start. You never know where it's going to end up.
Vicki McAuley
#15. I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth.
Nikki Rowe
#16. I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
Wayne Rooney
#17. I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
Yehuda Berg
#18. Forgive and forget.If there's anything that I've learnt this far, it's to forgive people - Balqis
Diyar Harraz
#19. I've learnt that you never know what is around the corner, so it's best to enjoy the ride.
Cush Jumbo
#21. I don't push my luck. I don't worry about the results and therefore everything seems to work out well. That's something I've learnt over the years. The whole thing about the acting business is that it's a hit-or-miss game so I keep my distance from it.
Anthony Hopkins
#22. I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.
Nicole Kidman
#23. I think, even in society, people get so caught up in how they look. I think I let that go, and I've learnt to not care.
Rebecca Ferguson
#24. But one thing I've learnt about people, is that they can always surprise you.
Nathan Filer
#25. Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.
Jason Mraz
#26. I found myself doing all these action-adventure movies, and it's been a fantastic experience, and I've learnt a lot.
Orlando Bloom
#27. I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.
Natalie Cole
#28. I've learnt that love isn't about our place at the centre of it, but about finding the generosity to allow those we care about to discover happiness wherever they so choose, with whomever they so desire , even if - for whatever reason - that isn't with us.
Hannah Beckerman
#29. From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.
Alicia Keys
#30. Well, I've learnt this much: it doesn't matter
what it costs, it's worth paying the price. You can't live cheap
and you can't live for nothing. Pay the price and be proud you've
paid it, that's what I reckon.
John Marsden
#31. I think I've learnt a lot about bullying and how to deal with bullying and how to get over that and to just be yourself and forget the haters.
Bonnie McKee
#32. You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.
Jennifer Ehle
#33. I've learnt that if I tell myself I'm not allowed something, I binge on it later. So if I want chocolate, I have chocolate. If I want biscuits, I have biscuits. I love cake. I just love cake.
Geri Halliwell
#34. The big things that I've learnt from my dad is that you can just say what you want to say.
Bindi Irwin
#35. I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.
Tony Fadell
#36. I've learnt to realise my brother is my own best friend. He'd always stick his nose in even though I turned around and said "It's none of your business", I know he only wanted to look out for me.
Andrew Chan
#37. I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.
Neil Diamond
#38. I've learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn't the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realise how selfish you are.
Toby Stephens
#39. One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.
Ned Vizzini
#40. If I am able to pass on what I've learnt in my life, that's really wonderful, especially after losing Dad.
Bindi Irwin
#41. I've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.
Martha Wainwright
#43. Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.
Seth Rogen
#44. The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.
Arsene Wenger
#45. I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.
Nick Davies
#46. I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.
Lindsay Lohan
#47. There are people who make a hobby of telling others what they can do and what they can't do. I've learnt to not listen to those people.
Omar Samra
#48. People are starting to see that now and I've learnt more from those 10 rounds than I have in my previous 10 fights.
Billy Joe Saunders
#49. I'm one of these people who tries to look for the good in people, but I've learnt that, actually, no, some people fundamentally just are not nice.
Rebecca Ferguson
#50. I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years.
Paul Gascoigne
#51. I've learnt that the world over, everyone's essentially the same. We are all trying to have a nice time and get along with things.
Dominic Monaghan
#52. Don't feel you have to stick to plans, because something better might come up; and try to blend in, because you see more. I've learnt that the principles of moving around a big city are the same everywhere; only the people and streets are different.
Michael Urie
#53. I've learnt from experience that a painting isn't finished when you put down your brush - that's when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
Banksy
#54. What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.
Peter Capaldi
#55. I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.
Penelope Wilton
#56. I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#57. I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.
Ranveer Singh
#58. There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.
Ian McKellen
#59. I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.
Paddy Considine
#60. I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt.
Emma Watson
#61. I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.
Tony Blair
#62. Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.
Elizabeth Peyton
#63. One thing I've learnt about humans: you can't judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.
Dianna Hardy
#64. What I've learnt is never to work with the person you are in a relationship with because sometimes you need a break.
Preity Zinta
#65. I've learnt not to draw my sword first to strike.
That in no way portends I have the most feeble of minds or might . . .
Probably, I'm waiting for the perfect moment to startle with a fatal strike.
Ufuoma Apoki
#66. My first role was an angel in the nursery nativity. I spotted my mum halfway through and shouted over someone else's lines to ask if she liked my costume. I've learnt not to do that now.
Emily Berrington
#67. I've learnt a lot over the years, but I'm still quite outspoken. And no matter how much media training you put me through, I don't think I could be anything but.
Lee Ryan
#68. Over the years I've learnt to live with two persons in my heart. One is Edson, who has fun with his friends and family; the other is the football player Pele. I didn't want the name. 'Pele' sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese.
Pele
#69. What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.
Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman
#70. One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
Salman Rushdie
#71. I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
Nigel Kennedy
#72. I've learnt that, even though I've travelled about, I haven't changed that much.
Karl Pilkington
#73. My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.
Bear Grylls
#74. Over the years, I've learnt how to strike a balance between both my lives and give quality time to my passion as well as to my family. Yes, it is tiring at times, and every working woman goes through the phase.
Malaika Arora Khan
#75. I've learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience.
Daniel Radcliffe
#76. If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
Taron Egerton
#77. The one thing I've learnt is that you don't want to be nasty about anybody, unless they've dropped dead. And the annoying thing is that most of the people that I know who've dropped dead are really great.
Jools Holland
#78. When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.
Marilyn Manson
#79. Now that I've reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I've learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like ... That's as far as I've gotten I'm afraid.
Ben Mitchell
#80. I've done more than 10,000 interviews, and I've learnt that you've got to do your homework. I bury myself in research beforehand. And you have to be genuinely interested in people; there's a cornucopia of great, ordinary people out there with wonderful, colourful stories.
Ray Martin
#81. I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.
Sally Menke
#82. Most of what I've learnt is too personal or controversial to share, but nevertheless, experiences have helped me understand things better and have been necessary for what my journey in future will be.
Tena Desae
#83. They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I've learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you're asked to do to the best of your ability.
Jeremy Hunt
#84. What I've learnt is: buy the damn shoes. Kiss the boy. You can lose a life in indecision, and regret is a waste of an emotion.
Kate Lord Brown
#85. One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.
Meg Rosoff
#86. Since writing, I've learnt to truly appreciate COLD coffee. If the second or third sip is cold, I lost track of time and was in my groove.
Michael Kroft
#87. A old man once told me "you live and you learn". We'll I've learnt that the blade sword is infinite, I've also learnt how to make a really good yogurt although this is not a skill I plan to employ at this point in time.
Terry Pratchett
#88. You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home, walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.
Ashley Greene
#89. I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the fact that you don't know what you're doing. And that simply saying 'I don't know what I'm doing' is a massive relief.
Caitlin Moran
#90. I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100 per cent in the character and, at the end of the day, take it all off and go back, get a nice bubble bath, have a nice massage and realise that is not my life. And that feels good.
Halle Berry
#91. I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.
Dax Shepard
#92. What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.
Marina And The Diamonds
#93. You're never going to get used to walking into a room and have people screaming at you. There's a lot of things that come with the life you could get lost in. But you have to let it be what it is. I've learnt not to take everything too seriously.
Harry Styles
#94. One thing I've learnt is you should never fight it. They're natural emotions and when you try and bottle everything up, that's what can make you depressed. Luckily I have fantastic memories [about my parents] and they really help.
Simon Cowell
#95. I can't eat before I go onstage because I've learnt that burping on stage isn't a good thing. It's all about acid reflux.
Jessie Ware
#96. I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.
Usher
#97. I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.
Marianne Faithfull
#98. I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.
Pete Doherty
#99. I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.
William Moseley
#100. Life was full of adventure: I learnt the smell of danger - I've got a sixth sense for it now. We're homesick for it, some of us; it's called the 'Afghan syndrome'.
Svetlana Alexievich
