Quotes About Experience

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

When I'm 18 I don't get any more school time on set, so you only have a limited time to do it. You learn every day, and so I don't think of it as a chore.

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'

I've been in the Los Angeles Children's Chorus since I was 8.

It's amazing how much this industry has taught me. It's been one of the hardest yet most rewarding things I chose.

In normal circumstances, if you want a job done well, you chose someone with experience doing that job.

Every character that I've chosen has made me evolve as an actor. And I am lucky that my directors have shown so much faith in my abilities.

When you have the chance to work with Wes Anderson, with Stephen Frears and Chris Weitz and Roman Polanski and Terrance Malick you don't say no.

I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.

I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge.

And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.

I was a Christian when I was young and didn't know any better.

I loved the first Christmas I had in England.

It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.

I really want a Christmas in New York one year, when it's snowing. Like, it's Christmas morning, and you have a fight with someone, and you run down the street, and it's snowing, and you can't find them.

I'm probably the only guy in the country who can say he's worked under Chuck Noll and Don Shula.

It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

House music is like going to church - it touches you. There's something really magical about it that pulls you in, and you just want to keep learning more about it.

Winston Churchill was like Winston Churchill because of his experiences in life.

If you're not learning as a human, growing as a human, you can't grow as an actor. You're just churning things you've already thought.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

I know CIA like the back of my hand.

I will always be the first Latina Cinderella, so I always have that to take with me, and I'm very proud of that. I believe that it was a life-changing experience for me.