Quotes About Experience

Every day feels like just starting out because I still have so much more to learn.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four. I had people telling me how to preserve myself.

I don't really like scary movies. I mean, I didn't as a kid, but I think I got a bit better now. I've been easing myself into it, starting off with the less spooky ones.

Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads.

When anybody is just starting the process of cooking, I always say it takes practice, and nobody got to be a great cook on their first try.

I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986).

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning.

I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.

Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

It's really fun at night, because I can see the baby kicking. I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it's a really incredible feeling. I'm so grateful I get to experience this.

People are starting to see that now and I've learnt more from those 10 rounds than I have in my previous 10 fights.

I'm 48 now and I would like to have another baby. I would love to because of all the things I have learned. It would be like starting all over again. But am I too old? I'm young at heart and I would be different this time round.

I am starting to like L.A., but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a little weird to me. I have been to many foreign cities where I didn't have to acclimatize as much as I did to L.A.

I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.

As I get older and I see all my friends starting to have children, I see them have different reactions to the material that was probably not of great interest to them when they were younger, because they're re-experiencing it through their kids.

Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.

My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

Your mistakes get to follow you for the rest of your life. I don't know if that's good for people who are young and are just starting to explore the Internet.

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!