Quotes About Experience

I was briefly bitter.

I know a lot of editors who are very bitter about the directors they work with. They feel they could have done a better job, and I say to them, 'Oh really? Why don't you go try - it's not easy.'

All of us make mistakes and one learns from the bitter lessons of the past.

It's easy to be bitter. I'm human in that respect.

Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter.

Experiences in life are supposed to make you better, not bitter. If one marriage doesn't work out, it's not necessary that the second one won't.

I can't tell you how many bizarre shows at UCB I was a part of.

I don't like to do press. But I know sometimes I need to do it because every time I do there's young people - black and white, but I think about young African-Americans because that's the experience I grew up with - who hear it.

College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

My Open record is not particularly good if you look at it on paper. But at the same time I don't feel like it is as bad as the black and white suggests.

My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.

I grew up around religious and elevator music. I didn't know any better, so I just thought music was kind of bland. So I didn't listen to much as kid.

Sometimes the best experiences are when I know nothing about this movie: I've never met the director, and I come and see something and I'm blank, because then it's coming at you in a way it would never come at you if you'd read the script, with an expectation.

When I was 13, I went on 'Britain's Got Talent.' I auditioned. I sang a cover of a song called 'White Blank Page' by Mumford & Sons.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 'Beach Blanket' was one of the most important experiences of my whole life. It's part of me.

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.

The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.

I believe 'Takkari Donga' didn't do too well. But I had a blast doing the film.

'Shaadi No. 1' with David Dhawan didn't turn out to be the best, but it was a blast to work on.

I've been blessed to have a long career.

Artists are so blessed as we get to live so many lives while doing different films.

I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.

Being a part of the NFL for 30 years was a blessing.

I've just been playing football for a long time. I've been playing football since I was a little kid, so it's just some natural blessings that God has blessed me with to get to the ball and understand what I've been doing over the years.