Quotes About Experience

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.

I work in L.A. from time to time.

I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.

If you're smart you're just gonna be all about the work. But as a young person, you want to going out to clubs and doing all the stuff. I'm just glad I survived it.

It's hard to top what you see in the film, they were just such a great group of people to work with and we all hung out in between scenes and I got to know everybody a little bit.

In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.

Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

There's a lot of young guys coming along, but I'd like to say to the various financiers, don't forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you.

Fittings are boring, but it's fun when you get to wear something new and go to a new event. I have a massive say in what I wear - I work really closely with my stylist.

Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"

"Lovelace" was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right?

You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect.

I always wanted kids I could take to work, and for them to experience the things I experience. So, having three boys as a footballer was a dream.

The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader