Quotes About Experience

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

I always liken life to a book where you turn the pages one at a time.

I felt like I could never write nonfiction, because I would have to spend so many pages explaining my ethnic background, and that wasn't really the story that I ever was interested in telling.

Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.

The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.

I've only half-admitted I'm a professional. I know I am, I've paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I'm acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

People always say time heals. Time doesn't necessarily heal anything. It allows you to manage things. There are occasions where you feel the pain as if it just happened, but you know that it's a fleeting moment.

As humans, we've all experienced some level of pain. Acting is just a matter of accessing and magnifying these emotions.

I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile.

Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.