“There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.”

“The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.”

“Much learning does not teach understanding.”

“A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'”

“I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.”

“I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.”

“I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.”

“Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.”

“If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.”