Quotes About Experience

I loved having Indian take-aways on a Friday night in Liverpool, but it's so different in the real India.

The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.

When I was in college, I wanted to write for 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien,' and I was an intern there.

People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.

I got a job as a coat check girl at a nightclub - this was in my first few months of being in L.A.

I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.

As a child, I lived in Germany at the Ramstein air force base, where my dad sang at a nightclub in Kaiserslautern. My parents couldn't afford a babysitter, so when I was, like, ten or 11, I would go with them to the bar until two in the morning.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler.

Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

The creative process on 'Margaret' was incredibly satisfying. I loved the cast; I had a great time writing the script. I liked making the movie. Believe it or not, I actually like editing the movie. It was all the rest of it that was such a nightmare.

Insecurity is very common among actors. When I started giving interviews and talking to people that I didn't know, it was a nightmare. I've learned how to deal with interviews and insecurity; I've gotten used to it.

We're no good at holidays, the wife and I. We just don't have the knack. We had one good one, early on, but that was a fluke. Everything since then has been a nightmare.

Because if you get someone who is a bit of a diva or are just not on the same page it can be a nightmare - and I'd rather go out knowing they've had an amazing time and we've got on than win the Glitterball although you've just had a horrible time and the person was horrible.

I spent a week of my honeymoon on a cruise ship and it was a nightmare. Never again.

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.

I loved 'Boogie Nights.' That was a great movie, and I had a lot of fun doing that.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena.

Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

One of my early money mistakes was getting fired from the first acting job I ever had. I was cast in a play as the lead, and I got fired three nights after the open.

I have had my fair share of nights out.

I saw 'Hairspray' in New York and had one of the best nights I've ever had in the theatre.