Quotes About Experience

Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done.

When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job, I think, but I was not amazing.

I always think that you finish one movie, you start a new one, and you think, 'OK. I did that last one. Now I've learned. I know how this works.' Then by the end of the movie, you think, 'No, I don't, really.'

I have no schooling in any normal sense but have learned from the best as far as just doing things. I learned filmmaking from loving movies and then just saying, 'OK, let's do it.'

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

It's okay to work for someone else; not everyone is cut out to own a business, and even so, working for someone else is a chance to learn how to both be an employee and an employer.

I think the first time I tried to write a romantic song, it was just horrendously embarrassing. I remember thinking, 'Okay, I'm not going to do that anymore.' I think that sort of embarrassed me for the next 10 years.

To be in a magazine when you're 20 is okay, but when you do it when you're 65, it's much more fun!

It's okay to fail if you learn from it.

I started playing in nightclubs when I was about 14 in Oklahoma.

I moved to Oklahoma to learn English when I was 16 years old from Colombia for six months; then I moved to New York.

L.A. kinda raised me a little bit as a 21-year-old kid from Oklahoma.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.