Quotes About Experience

Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.

Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a gravity experience to an autocognizance, real or imagined, registered inside us in the region of the stomach.

I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function.

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.

When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.

Why are we scared of a '50s weepie? Why are we scared of a movie that pulls you in and punches you in the stomach?

The cars need to be louder so it goes through your skin and your stomach, like it used to be - and we need a bit more speed.

Even when you're right in the middle of a tour and you've done 30 or 40 shows, you still get them butterflies in the stomach right before you go on stage.

Even if you only play a cameo in a film, it becomes a part of you and you get butterflies in your stomach on release day.

When I got to MSG, I had to look around and just take it in. I looked at the crowd and couldn't believe it. Instead of butterflies in my stomach, I had hawks!

I've been pretty lucky. Every single thing I've done has meant so much to me and has been like a stepping stone to something different.

How many people in the women's division can say they wrestled Robert Stone? Just me. To me that's cool. It doesn't always matter if you're in the title picture, you just gotta make the best of what you're given and it was fun for me.

Shortly after college, I was working in New York City at 'Rolling Stone' magazine.

I did two episodes of 'The Walking Dead,' and it was enough to have time to get in there and really get the meat of it, but also then move on and take that experience and bring it into the next one. It was a great stepping stone.

Well, basically Corey and I were in Stone Sour before we joined Slipknot.

I think I constantly refer back to some of the things that I learned in New England and throughout my career. It was a great stepping stone, and it also gave me time to mature as a player and as a quarterback.

You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.

At 18, I jumped to the Premier League from League Two which looks good on paper but it's about the journey and the stepping stones.

I remember Simple Minds, Echo and the Bunnymen, Nina Hagen, Elvis Costello and Duran Duran. And the best concert I ever saw was the Rolling Stones, in the stadium of Sporting Lisbon.

I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.

I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

That's what music has always been to me: a feel. I've listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me have that feeling of joy every time. They are still around and put on a really exciting show. We also give it 120 percent.

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

If somebody says, 'Do you remember the first time you heard a Rolling Stones song?' if you say you do, you're crazy. You've just always heard them. You might remember the first time it impacted you, but the first time you heard one, you were in a cradle.