Quotes About Experience

I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.

We don't want to make the same mistakes twice, though I tend to take the positives from past experiences, even unhappy ones.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Success has got nothing to do with being happy. I've been very rich, and been unhappy, and I've been very poor, and been happy.

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.

If my children were as unhappy as I was at school, I'd send them somewhere else, but it never occurred to my parents.

At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad.

If I ever write an autobiography, 'Hilariously Unhappy' could very well be the title.

The way I look at the world, if you can't find a way to get something good out of the experience, then you have lived an unhappy life. All the actors I have worked with, superstars or otherwise, I have enjoyed.

I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.

I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

I've at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, 'I would give anything for this not to be happening.' And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, 'I'm kind of glad that happened to me.'

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just lets you get on with it.

If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

When I left the WWE then I wasn't unhappy with the company at all.

I've been on a ranch. I've been in outer space. For a short, unhappy period I was a detective. I've also played Brutus and 14 or 15 other Shakespearean roles.

I have no unhappy memories of my childhood.

After getting a law degree, I spent five unhappy months as a corporate attorney.

I have had girlfriends, but nothing to go public on. I recently worked out that I have only been single for about six months of my life. Since I was 18 I have gone from one long-term relationship to the next. I am not unhappy.

Walking the streets of San Francisco can be a frightening, demoralizing, even an unhealthy experience for residents and tourists alike.