Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.
Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.
Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.
I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.
[Townies] was a great springboard, obviously, because Jenna [Elfman] went from that to Dharma & Greg, and a few years later, Lauren [Graham] went to Gilmore Girls.
Diving is cool to watch. Springboard or platform - it doesn't matter.
Living in New Zealand, that's something that you'd like to do as an actor, but very rarely do you get an opportunity to get such a good springboard as 'The Hobbit' to help you get international work.
The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
