Quotes About Experience

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.

I don't remember ever having finished a book.

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

One of the most fantastic experiences I ever had was as a decathlete. I finished fifth in the nation my senior year of high school. I had no training or nothing.

With Sugarland, it never felt like we were finished telling our story.

I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.

I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.

I did learn a lot from 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' but I've learned different things from different films.

I was fired as an actor on 'Bosch.'

I'd never have left Hawkwind if I hadn't been fired.

I've never been fired from an acting job.

I often joke that I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had.

I did ride-alongs and did some firefighter training at the Chicago Fire Academy.

I've been in a lot of fires.

When you fight fires for a few seasons, you know what to expect. Your heart doesn't race as much as it did.

Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.

I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.

When I was a senior in high school, I did an internship with a law firm. And it was very clear that I did not have what it took to do that kind of work.

The biggest mistake I've seen people make with their careers is, when they're good, after two or three years - and they happen to be smart - they announce that they're going out to start their own firm.

My family said that a big firm was where you'd get the most opportunities. I knew nobody who had ever worked at a firm, nobody who knew anything about it. I just tried to get the best job I could.

I'm not a really firm believer in theatre that is 'about anything.' I don't think theatre can be about anything other than the people who show up and the value that they hold.

I'm a firm believer in putting your experiences in your writing, of bleeding into the page.