Colin Firth

If you play a role, you want to familiarize yourself with that person's world. If I were playing an airline pilot or a doctor, I'd probably want to hang out with a doctor or an airplane pilot for a while, ask some questions. You don't get to hang out the kings. They don't help consult on movies. So your resources are, by necessity, secondary.

British Actor

Bushwick Bill

Poverty brings people to drastic measures and that's what the hardcore gangsta rap scene is about. It's called freedom of expression. People should be allowed to express what they've been through, what they've been able to familiarize themselves with.

American Musician

John Polkinghorne

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

British Physicist

Allen Ginsberg

I recommend for any basic course on the Beat Generation to familiarize yourself with 'The Idiot,' Prince Myshkin. He was Dostoyevsky's idea of the most beautiful human being he could imagine, the creation of a saint in literature.

American Poet

Carlo Rubbia

Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.

Italian Physicist

Jean Moulin

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

French Activist

Toni Morrison

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

American Novelist

Miguel Sapochnik

Whatever project I sign up for, I try to familiarize myself with the material as much as possible before I start.

English Director

Rasika Dugal

I feel it's important to familiarize yourself with the world that the character inhabits.

Indian Actress

Goldie Hawn

Familiarize yourself with the parts of your brain and their function.

American Actress

To familiarize is active, meaning you actively engage with something to understand it.

Active Process

Familiarizing often implies a process over time rather than a one-time effort.

Time Frame

While familiarizing can start with basics, it generally includes a deeper understanding.

Beyond Basics

 wastes something needs to be done it's very clear that they're not going to be any arrests this week as we will familiarize themselves with a new regulation for next week

A Boat Made From Plastic...

 to step back, to familiarize yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life. Thank you very much.