Quotes About Experience

The people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry.

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well, there's another notch on my experience belt.

What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.

I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of work, his naïveté is the part of the craft he has to nurture most.

I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I've never had that experience. If I'm not happy with the balance, I just won't work with that person again.

The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

There are people out there who pay their hard earned money to see a good show and people who work 9 to 5 and they saved their money and they want to see the best show possible.

I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding.

I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.

Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.

Usually I'm trying to work with people that I've worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we're going to do together.

Once I walked out of my house into to the Puerto Rican Day parade. It was usually a five-minute walk to work, but that day it took me a half-hour to get to 30 Rock.

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

Seeing David Mackenzie's work in "Starred Up," I thought that was a wonderful film.

If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

I've been married twice and I've tried to make it work, but I feel I haven't had a real marriage yet.

I'm in a position to work on good things. I've worked on shitty projects, in the past. But, it is what it is. I'm just taking it as it comes.

Much of my work has been done in first person.