Quotes About Experience

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in.

I'm a Catholic school boy from the military.

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do.

I've got big homies that done been through the same thing I've been through and they made it out, changed their life and they come back and snatch young cats up and lecture them and let them know right way to do it.

It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

I never really caught on in America. I don't have an agent. It's too strange for me.

When I was 14, I had a job in a cake shop. I got caught by the boss, lying down eating cake, and was sacked on my first day.

Have you ever held a job that caused a body part to hurt at the end of the day? Because my feeling is, if you can't answer yes to that question, you are in big trouble in trying to understand the country you live in.

Some choreographers have been cautious about working with me.

As you get older, I suppose, you get a bit more cautious in everything you do. But I've always been blessed with self-belief.

I'll read anything by a guy who spent 40 years in a cave.

I've never been one to celebrate anniversaries.

I don't think you should celebrate age.

The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'

When I was four, we went to Oahu. It was the first time we celebrated Passover away from home.

'Smart, Funny and Black' is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience.

I didn't have a cell phone for awhile, until I was, like, 13 or 14, and before then, even if I did have one, it didn't work.

America has been central to my life.

I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this was a centre of writing.

There's no one who has been living for centuries.

I will never be a CEO again.

When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.

When I was made CEO of Reynolds the first time, someone asked me what it was like to be a female CEO. But I said, 'I don't know what its like to be a male CEO, so I can't really answer that question.'