Quotes About Experience

As teenagers, we used to listen to entire Rush albums, entire Pink Floyd albums and shut down the lights and it was great.

We're not MTV, we're not teenagers. We kind of have a little bit more of an idea of who we are and what our comedy is because we've been doing it for so long.

Seven years as a band may seem like a long time, but we were teenagers when we started.

I started climbing in my late teens, but I wasn't passionate about it back then. My first experience was being dragged up peaks by my parents; freezing cold with nothing to see.

I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I was a child actor and then didn't do it through junior high and high school, then started up again in my late teens doing 'Young and the Restless.' Dabbled with school, went back to college, played around. I think I was doing Pleasantville at 23.

Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a part of the voice I need.

I've worked every job under the sun, from waitressing in my teens, to clocking hours on a construction site in London (I have degrees in quantity surveying and construction). I modelled on the side and starred on reality TV in Ireland.

I backpacked through France and Italy in my teens, and then I was at Cannes with the first movie I did in '84.

I never really felt 100 percent me while singing in those Jimin years. But I don't regret it, because I think that it was the only time that I can sing those songs, when I was in my early 10s and teens.

I was having my teens in my 30s.

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.

I had never been attracted to younger guys. I had, from my late teens, always liked men who were older than me.

Children and teens need to explore the dark side as a healthy part of growing. If a child is protected from everything dreadful, he will have no coping mechanisms in place when finally confronted with disaster.

I've been writing songs since my teens.

I'll admit that I enjoyed my 20s more than my teens, my 30s more than my 20s.

In my teens, I saw a terrible production of 'Die Walkuere.' To a person of 15, it was just awful, and it put me off for many years. Eventually I became an opera-goer, if not an opera buff.

The thing that I find interesting about teens now is that no matter how desperate we seem to be taxonomically 'othering' them, for one reason or another - because the Internet, because whatever - I feel like a lot of the benchmarks and the experiences are, you know, same for teens through time immemorial.

I started writing my first book for young people when I was in college. I was only a couple of years out of my teens when I began; I felt closer to that experience than I did as an adult. But I've always been drawn to stories about young people.

I left school, and I went to work in a computer company. I was in my late teens.

Beauty works when one is in her teens. Between the ages 55 and 60, it's the technique and the personality of the dancer that captivates the audience.

In the olden days you cut your teeth on the northern club circuit. I've cut mine on the southern black-tie circuit.

I was blessed with a good character in 'Hollyoaks,' and I cut my teeth in 'Brookside' as well.

Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.