Quotes About Experience

Travel opens eyes and perspectives.

I love getting to have different food and getting to be around different people and different cultures and different ways people look at life. It's really kind of helped me open up my mind and see the world from different perspectives.

I feel stronger and I feel like I've gained so much knowledge and new perspectives because I've met so many different people.

There's no point in sanitising your past. I believe everybody deserves to evolve and change their perspectives. To be human is an ongoing process.

I've been to Mongolia, Peru, Argentina, India.

The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

This is what old guys do. They get dark and pessimistic.

To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

When you're in something like 'Game of Thrones' and get the chance to play a part like Bronn, with that cast and with Peter Dinklage, it's wonderful.

A performer learns with experience and with age. I did not know the future when I left home and started out to begin my career: I started qawaali; then I met Peter Gabriel and was exposed to a lot of new ideas.

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

One person who has taught me a lot and inspired me a lot was Peter Falk. I was fortunate enough to have worked with him in this movie called 'Vig.' He brought my work to a place where it literally shouldn't have been for another two or three years.

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

For a meal out, my number one restaurant is Peter's Inn. I first went there when it was an old biker bar. Believe me, when it was Motorcycle Pete's, that was fun. I had my 30th birthday there.

Nobody can ever describe how much you explore a character on a Peter Berg movie until you're doing it.

I remember my first review in London said I was the next Peter Brook. I said: 'No way. I'm not Peter Brook. I don't have the maturity, the experience, the intelligence. Don't burden me.'

Every film relies on our brain and heart to expand its universe. 'Petite Maman' leaves room for your story to be looked at in that room.

My first fight. I fought a girl that was a little bit heavier, a little bit more experienced and I was petrified because I didn't know what I was getting myself into. And I did really well against her and nobody believed it was my first fight.

It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.

I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.

Everything that I learned in the Navy, I took it with me into the next phase of my life.