Quotes About Experience

I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

I was born in Singapore, and I lived there until I was 12. I had a very fortunate upbringing.

My home and my upbringing and just the problems in my family within my extended family were such that it truly was a mix of the good, bad, and the ugly.

I definitely feel like I had a different upbringing to a lot of other people, but not in a bad - or good - way.

I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.

We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics.

I grew up in New York City, but the rest of the world was a very big part of my upbringing.

I've had an incredible upbringing, but it was quite chaotic.

I don't want to keep talking about my upbringing because people always resort to the past and what happened when I was younger.

For me socialism has never been an intellectual pursuit. It comes from my upbringing and experience.

I had a comfortable, middle-class upbringing and went to boarding school when I was five.

I had a rough upbringing. Group homes. Foster homes.

Where I come from, the family, upbringing, whatever I have seen in life, I know for sure that nothing is permanent.

I did experience a different type of upbringing having two completely different cultures.

I made a sofa that is constantly being updated the more people sit on it, or sit through it, or don't sit on it because it's so uncomfortable.

I want to go to Denmark and Scandinavia. We've been inundated with their telly recently, and I've never been to any of those countries. I really want to get to know the people. I quite fancy living there for a bit if I could take a month off. They just seem like upfront, friendly folk.

Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.

I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity with no experience, but I think I had to go through it to know exactly what a titanic effort that was going to be.

Lucky Me' is the story of every young black man who grew up like me. I want to use my story to uplift and inspire those who lived this and educate those who didn't.

That's what's great about the horror genre is that you're getting a load of people together in the cinema at the same place and the same time, having them all experience extreme fear and come out alive at the end. It's an uplifting experience, and there's a sense of elation.