Quotes About Experience

If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for.

I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.

I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.

People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

The seasoned woman is going to offer a more seasoned character.

'Law & Order' was so very interesting to me because what I got to do was explore New York along with getting to work with some of the best actors New York City had to offer.

Of course, no one has enough time to see every shop that Mumbai has: That would take more lifetimes than even the gods could offer.

'Khoobsurat' was an eye-opener in many ways. Cinema is a colossal money-churning business in India, and working in that environment offered me quite an incredible learning experience.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

My first mother's role was in 'Aradhana.' But after that in mid to late 1980s, I was being offered more roles of mothers.

I get offered work these days.

I was offered jobs impersonating everyone from Cher to Madonna.

Have you ever been offered a job by a poor person? No one has.

After the first 'Hedwig,' interestingly, I was offered to play Hamlet a couple of times.

When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and then New York. But I've been to enough places to have gained a greater appreciation for the beauty and rich culture of all of Rhode Island. I am grateful for all that it offered during my childhood.

My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.

'Naked' kind of kicked me off into the film world. It just so happens that all of the things that I have been offered have been films, and I've enjoyed the travel that goes along with that.

Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.

We don't get offered roles because of who we are but because of what we delivered in the past.

My live show experience has not been good. It's just because I haven't had a band or anything. I played a show in Santa Ana that I'm just not proud of at all. It came out of the blue, and I kind of freaked out and took the opportunity because it was the biggest thing I've ever been offered.

Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned.