Quotes About Experience

You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high school, and everybody's partying, and they're doing math. I always felt a little bit outside of it. Outside of both experiences, really.

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

You don't go to a school and major in partying.

I'm not going to date a crazy party animal; I'm more into culture. I'd rather go to a museum, travel somewhere, or go to a play. That's more interesting to me than partying at the hottest club.

When I went off to college in 1997, I didn't go back and watch 'Conan.' I was out partying and dating women.

I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I'd lived in - like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.

I lived at home and found myself really, really lonely because all my friends were enjoying college and partying, and I didn't have that.

People always ask if I miss the drugs and the partying. I'm a 58-year-old man - no, I don't!

I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but I needed to go back and work on the inside.

So I definitely think I've gotten much, much, much better at partying and having fun the older I've gotten.

I was born in Chicago. I moved to Detroit until I was six and moved to Oakland at that point. And then we had a couple years in Stockton and Pasadena. And by the time I was 13, I was back in Oakland.

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

I led the fight for the Clinton health care plan in 1994. We failed. I learned from that experience. What I learned is you can't pass a complicated government-run plan.

Cinema was my rite of passage.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.

I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

I think it's a rite of passage that the minute you land in Japan, you have to go to a karaoke bar.

The emotional passage of time is always a good thing.

KIN' is basically a kind of rite of passage, scars-and-all celebration of going through difficult things in your life and being better for it.

When I was growing up, a Saturday job was a rite of passage, every kid had one.

Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks... and being able to eat the fish afterwards.

I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year.