Quotes About Experience

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist. I am always looking for that part that I have never done before, which makes it all the more difficult, because people want to hire you for what they've already seen you do.

The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.

I've been told I'm bright. But when I act, I get incredibly stupid. I feel my intellect slowing down. I feel it happening physically. And that's not negative in acting!

I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.

The best times I've ever had and the greatest lessons I've ever learned were when my feet were out over the edge of the line, and I was at risk of getting a little beat up, physically and emotionally.

I work very physically. I don't like to intellectualize too much about what we're doing, or analyze it.

I think, from just playing street ball and stuff like that, I was always able to play up with the older guys, and I think that got me physically and mentally prepared to play on a high level of basketball.

I'm somebody who has to physically experience an environment in order to know it as well as I would like to know it. I recognize this is impressionistic, not scientific. People say, 'You sound like Walt Whitman.' Well, I'll take that comparison.

When you play against older players, it's always a challenge physically and mentally.

Music is a very physical experience, and I need to understand things physically to be able to create the narrative for them.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.

I came from a very small high school in which there was no guidance and not any appreciable amount of physics taught, nor much mathematics. So I didn't know what academia was all about until I got to college.

Since childhood I've been very bad with formulas in math, physics.

I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'

I was for a minor amount of time but I was probably a better pianist at 15 than I am now.

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

I've been playing piano since I was 7. I took 15 years of lessons. I've got a lot of miles on these hands.

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

The whole cast of 'Company' was invited to Hal Prince's house. This is one of the highlights of my life. We all sat in the living room. Sitting on the floor, I was right by the piano.

Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child.