Quotes About Experience

I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on it while you shoot it. I think those are lessons you learn on any film.

Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

One thing I've noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

Filming is completely - was totally new to me ... I had a movie career which wasn't supposed to be, so I couldn't be more thrilled. For those who work, parts seem to get more interesting.

Usually I don't get specific advice from certain actors or actresses I work with.

I've been in some biennales, and some I haven't. I always like the idea of how you meet the curator, hang out, and figure out who you want to work with.

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones

I've had chapters in my work life that have kind of coincided with the place I am in mine. I had the best-friend phase, and the pregnant-woman phase - for a while, I was pregnant in every movie.

I think that there is no doubt that every experience you have in your life, whether it's playing a character or something else, you bring that to the work.

Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

The fundamentals of what I'll do to prepare for a role don't really change. They evolve as you work with more actors and you pick up more tricks.

I'm a journeyman actor. My experience as a journeyman actor is that you have to go where the work is. I've never been the lead; I've never been in that position.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

The longer you've been acting, normally, the better you are at it. As a musician, it doesn't work like that.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

I like all my work equally. I look at the projects as children. I look at the experience more than the end result.

I've been so blessed to work with the people I have.

I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.

I owe 'Jericho' my whole time in America, really. It was a fantastic group of people to work with.

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to share what I've learned with graduate students at SNHU. I'm just as excited for what I'll learn from them.