Quotes About Experience

I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.

If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work.

Normally for work I will fly business class.

Most people probably become more jaded the longer they work in the world of work.

Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

On a movie, you have a great time, and you're really enjoying the work, and then everybody is done and goes their separate ways, and you maybe never get to work with those people again.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

It is great to work on different scripts with different directors who have different styles. You get so much experience from that.

I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.

I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

Make your mistakes work for you by learning from them.

You just want to have new experiences and work with new people, so the idea of working with someone outside of your discipline is exciting.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

A writer's work is to witness things.

I actually got a crush on Anne Heche when I worked with her on Huckleberry Finn. It didn't work out.

It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.

People come up to me on the street and say, 'Men at Work is the funniest movie I ever saw in my life'. But, you know, I do have to question how many movies these people have seen.

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

I had to work with a psychiatrist.

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.