Learning the Ropes Quotes

Pretty much everyone's career starts the same way: with grunt work. Not just the cliched fetching of coffee, but other lowly tasks: taking notes in meetings, preparing paperwork, scheduling, intensive research - even flat-out doing our bosses' work for them.

That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

I'm just another guy starting out.

I will definitely start in small venues, as I want to find my feet as a performer; the first shows that Westlife did was ten dates at Wembley, which was just crazy. We didn't have a clue what we were doing because it was so big.

Being a freshman Senator, you spend your first 18 months just trying to find out how the Senate works.

I've always liked to shoot from the hip. This is the perfect fit for me ... I'm willing to earn my spurs, because once again, after 18 years I'm back to being a rookie.

When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.

Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.

There's always anxiety when you start a new job, you're the one guy who doesn't know where the ketchup is.

I look back now and realize you have to learn the system. Not kiss ass, but you have to learn the system.

When you come to a new club, the first two or three days are always a bit hectic.

I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out.

Growing up on a set is completely different than coming onto a brand new set for the first time.

I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about.

Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.