Quotes About Experience

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

Every work experience is a positive work experience, and if you're looking at it any other way I can't help you.

Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefully vice versa.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

When I first moved to New York I had been trying to work on anything and everything I could. From extra work and commercials to short and student films so I could learn in front of a camera.

When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.

I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it's been an amazing learning curve.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions.

We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few listens.

The idea of it [Star Wars] is really exciting, but the most fun part is the actual job you get to do: the character that you get to play, the people that you work with, the day-to-day experience.

In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.

I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

In my experience, you get a job for a reason. Your work life happens for a reason.

Drugs didn't work out too well for me.