Quotes About Experience

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

You are always drawing from your personal life and using your imagination to fill in the blanks.

'Party Down' was one of the most magical, special experiences of my professional career. Also special in my personal life, too. I made really good friends, and I had just a great time, and it was a great part.

My personal life is also cinema.

On the road, you can't really develop a personal life.

I learned through experience that it doesn't work for me to talk about my personal life. I've had earlier times in my career when I did talk about it.

As an actor, you go in your own personal life and pull from your personal life, so that's what I do.

What I went through in personal life had a big impression on my professional choices.

Congress always gets new blood. You have to balance that with people who know what's going on. It's no different than a business, it's no different than your personal life.

Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note!

There's nothing better than a personal story.

My approach to writing is, it's either going to be a personal story about me and what I've personally been through, or it's going to be inspired by a friend.

I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.

There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that's not quite as delicate in telling your own story. I think when I'm working on a personal story, there's less pressure to try to get it exactly right.

My first novel, 'When You Were Mine,' was a very, very personal story and drew a lot on the people in my life and the relationships that I had.

Failure is a personal thing but it's better to experience it in the beginning itself because you learn to handle it.

Failure is a very personal thing and everybody goes through it very personally.

I share personal things about myself in the context of my interviews and in 'It's Messy' - but that's 20 percent of my life.

That's part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that's one of the things I love about it.

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

Every audience has a personality. Some of them don't have the best personalities, but you're on a date with them for an hour and a half, so you just make the best of it.

On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to do shows where the director changes every week, because you get to see all these different personalities and see what you like dealing with better, as an actor.

I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.

My character in 'Cocktail' was different from my personality. Homi Adajania took me to London, showed me how girls dress and behave there. I had not seen that kind of lifestyle before.