I came to Leverkusen as a very young player and didn't have many Bundesliga games back then. I wasn't well known.
I am not a professional politician.
When I walk onto a film set, I become frightened and nervous. There's all this equipment, all these people, and most of them do things you don't know how to do. I didn't come from a film background.
Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.
I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.
He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
You can only be stupid when you're young.
I found myself without money, without credit, without army, without experience and knowledge of my own and finally, also without any counsel because each one of them at first wanted to wait and see how things would develop.
No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
I was not a trained actor.
I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.
Not even a public figure. A man of no experience and of the utmost insignificance.
Referring to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, 1867-1947: 1st Baron & 1st Marquis Curzon of Kedleston
I think I was very nave early on, but that also meant I didn't know what couldn't be done.
I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and frankly, it's disgusting.
Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.
To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
With rap, you go in the studio, you make music, you put the music out, then all of a sudden, you're a star: you have a big record on the radio, and you're on stage, and you've never done it before. Let's say your first show is 'Summer Jam,' and you're in front of 60,000 people, and you've never played an arena, ever. You're gonna suck.
I like amateur things.
You see people who get so many big opportunities, and they take them, and they're not ready.
I am fine working with debutant directors. They have a freshness about them.
A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.
I was a 19 year old kid; I was 170 lbs soaking wet. I didn't have an identity. I didn't have a look. I didn't have the proper gear. I was just a young guy trying to be a wrestler. So, to be honest, WWE didn't even give me a second look.
I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.
Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.