Quotes About Experience

People think that theatre helps, but in my case, it slowed me down. I had to unlearn everything when I went on to a film set.

Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.

I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The Dismembering of the Clampett Clan' or 'The Oklahoma Meatgrinder Massacre' or some such. The headaches unleashed by watching attractive kids die week after week after week cannot be imagined.

Watching Sridevi emote was an experience. She was very quiet on the sets. But once in front of the camera, all her energy would be unleashed.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

Unless people are in the shoes of a child actor, they don't realise how difficult it can be at times. I definitely enjoy what I'm doing, though.

I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.

Unless you have experienced it, it's difficult to describe the virulence of the Twitter storms that were unleashed on Trump skeptics.

You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless you're writing a song and there's an exact scenario that you're trying to write a song for.

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

People don't believe they've experienced the event unless they've taken a photograph.

Some things you never really fully understand unless you are actually black and you experience how it feels when someone treats you differently based on your skin colour.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the real significance of being a pro unless you're playing other pros. It doesn't help you to play sporadically here or there.

Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

Old women can see through walls.

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

I'm not big on women looking naive.