Quotes About Experience

I am not professionally trained as an actor.

I'm a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I'll leave it to the professionals.

You work on a show like 'All My Children' - we know what it is, but you're still able to grow outside of it. It's the perfect situation. I learned. I grew as an actor. I worked with professionals. I got paid.

I think my favorite role was playing Sarah Baker in 'Cheaper by the Dozen 1.' It was my first movie, and I worked with amazing professionals who had such strong work ethics that I immediately learned how to work in this industry.

Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.

Part of what any good health-care professional does, including an advanced-practice nurse, is know when it is time to seek help from more experienced professionals. I'm a primary care doctor. It doesn't mean I know everything. When something is beyond my competency or expertise, I seek consultation from my colleagues.

When you are constantly around other professionals, you end up learning and growing.

I have had the privilege of serving as city comptroller, and I lead 750 professionals in the office, have appointed eight deputy comptrollers... no one has criticized my management of these 750 professionals.

We're in no way crime journalists or professionals really.

I love watching professionals play more than I love sitting there 20 hours a day trying be a pro myself.

In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for acting.

The roles do get fewer as you get older. That's the same for all professions, there's fewer roles for people later in life. I don't think it should be like that because as long as you are able to do your job then people should keep working with you. It shouldn't come down to age.

Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.

I was a professor for 20 years, 12 of those at Emory University.

I learn more from my kids then I have any professor in all my life.

I was a diction, speech and method acting professor before I became an actor.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

The thing that was great about San Jose State was, I got connected with some very good professors.

Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.

I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.

I don't usually eulogise about people, but I saw Russell Brand doing stand-up before he was really high profile. I didn't really know what to expect but I laughed until my belly ached.

When people have a public profile, for whatever reason, nine times out of 10, it's an interesting journey that they've been on to get there.

Me and discrimination, me and racial profiling... we go way back. We've got history.