If I ever have to return to dressmaking I still have that possibility.
If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature.
It's really rubbish that some kind of "technical" learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.
Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.
It's a practical matter. If you're useful to others, you'll be hired.
Experience matters for some roles and not others.
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
I'm quite good at Lego and Fifa, but they don't translate in the real world.
Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.’ That is completely false. It does matter what you do. You should focus relentlessly at something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.
It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
I honestly always thought my Master's in Fine Arts would get me further in the acting world than knowing how to work an espresso machine!
When we think about the workplace, people think about hard skills being dominant, but they're not. The employer realizes knowledge will shift quickly, and there's a half-life to knowledge in this world.
