Quotes About Experience

You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.

At any period of an actor's life, it's fairly likely that they'll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That's the way it goes.

I've lived all over Europe, spent a lot of time in London, went to school in Scotland, college in America, so I do think I have sort of a sensibility on a fairly global level.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

In any adaptation, the challenge is to take the essence of the original source of the material, be faithful to it to a point, but to also recognize that you're telling a story in a very different medium. It has to exist on its own, and it has to offer something unique to that experience.

You need to write about something that you really know about or you deeply connect with. Don't fake it.

Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.

Marvel actually sent me to a school in the Bronx where I had a fake name, and I put on an accent, and I went for, like, three days. I basically had to go to this science school and blend in with all the kids, and some of the teachers didn't even know.

Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn't learn anything.

I always have felt that most people don't have the first idea about what musicians, in the traditional sense - I don't mean in the modern media fake way, but traditionally - what they went through, what their lives were like.

How can you sing a line like, 'I've fallen out of love' when you're 18? You need to experience something of life before you can sing it.

I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.

I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.

I have basically fallen into everything I've ever done.

When you're 16 you write about different things to when you're 21 and have fallen out of love and been on the road for six years and have a house.

I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my father told him I was too young.

I'm not afraid of falling or failing, because I've failed many times, and I learned from them.

I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.

Falling in love is an absolutely beautiful thing to go through, and why people shouldn't talk about it is beyond me.

I really liked falling in love with cities that I had actively disliked before.

I'm personally in a different stage of my career than I was at the beginning. I was young and tried to run a lot and fight for things. Now it falls naturally. That's something you get with experience.

There are certain directors I have worked with who build up the scene and get you all excited, but when you actually do it, it falls below your expectation.

I've done all this stuff because it's fun. It's never been about fame.

Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.