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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

Nothing amazes me anymore.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

You look like gold. I’ve been fooled before, but now I know I’ve made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you’re in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day.