Quotes About Experience

I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.

'I'm a Celebrity' was so much harder than I originally thought. Until you are in the jungle, you don't really know what you're in for.

I originally came out as gay when I was a teenager, then backtracked when I thought I had closed off the market a bit!

My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.

I've lived in Atlanta, Milwaukee, Dallas. I started in Orlando, so I've been north and south.

My experience in Orlando was a good one. I made some good friends.

I've fallen in love a few times in Orlando, I've dated some people that live there.

My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans.

Going down to New Orleans, that's where I end up with the best meals.

I love New Orleans. I did a movie there right before Katrina.

It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.

My whole way of looking at entertainment and audience engagement - and my ability to go from one genre to another - comes from my experience in New Orleans.

Werner Herzog, when I auditioned for 'Bad Lieutenant,' he had never seen any of my films. He thought I was this actress living in New Orleans and it was my first job.

Anything back in New Orleans is definitely nostalgic. I really played my first shows of my life and learned to perform here. I learned how to work a stage and how to connect with a crowd. It all started here.

We all have our own party fantasy that we've either lived or wanted to live in New Orleans.

When I was younger, I went with a friend of mine to Nairobi for 3 months and helped teach in an orphanage's school. It was a great experience and made me truly understand that giving back - by giving time, not just money - was so rewarding.

Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.

You have the women sitting on the left and the men sitting on the right. Everything is to keep your mind focused on God... To me the most beautiful thing anyone on earth can experience, other than maybe marriage and child-bearing, would be the Orthodox Liturgy.

Working with Bruce Willis makes my career authentic. I may not get an Oscar, but I worked with Bruce Willis. That matters more to me.

I didn't set out to win an Oscar, of course, but to be in this conversation, it's somehow an honour and a strange life experience as well.

I've experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films.

I ate ostrich. I'm not very proud of it. I was going through a very experimental period and probably during foot and mouth. It was exquisite, but I felt very guilty.

I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.

Experience in other countries shows how big money, rather than the best political candidate, can influence politics.