Quotes About Experience

The only time I tried alcohol my hangover lasted for days, and I decided never again.

I'm really grateful for the opportunity I had on 'Boardwalk Empire,' just because it was very different than anything I'd done onscreen.

If you've had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on - I didn't know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop.

Actually, I've only been involved with one girl I worked with. It was Alyssa Milano. We didn't actually have an onscreen kiss - we're about to but it gets broken up.

There's a different feeling when you've played with musicians for 30 years. A lot of stuff doesn't even need to be said, especially onstage. We just read each other so well.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

My first stand-up experience, like most comics, was horrible. I got booed offstage. I thought I was funnier than I was. But the walk from the back of the room to the stage was the most excited I'd ever been about anything in my life other than kissing a girl. That's how I knew I had to get back onstage and do it again.

Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

The first time I was onstage, I felt like the audience was breathing with me. I don't know if I was good or not; I just knew I was having a ball, and for the first time, I felt I belonged somewhere.

I love being onstage, whether it's dancing or acting - there's just something about being onstage.

I can't just play in a rock band. The National is a great, exciting band to play in. We improvise a lot onstage, and it's very intense, but after a while, I crave other kinds of experiences.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

Working with film directors helps me grow, but nothing like the incremental jumps I make onstage.

This accident, or incident, happened in the most secure place I could have felt I was in: Walking onstage with my guitar, you know?

I talk to people now, and they thought I was so confident. I was doing all this awesome stuff onstage, and they didn't realize I was going through so much loneliness and hurt backstage. It was like high school.

I will say that, I, being a Jew, experience unease before I go onstage; and after I go onstage, and in general. But luckily the forty-five minutes to an hour that I'm onstage I usually forget everything else and I just press play.

Sometimes in my mind I still think I'm 16 onstage and my body tells me that I'm not 16 anymore.

My dad loves it - being onstage - but I don't.

It's very important to me to give something back - to pass on my know-how, to give all the lessons I learned onto the next generation so they don't make the same mistakes.