Quotes About Experience

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

Some people live where they work. Others just visit.?

Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.

I try to put my own history in my work.

By being able to play different styles I can get more work. I also learn so much from each of those experiences. It keeps everything from getting stale.

I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I've begun my career working with older heroes. The people I had been fan of, I now work with them. It's a great opportunity for me.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.

I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

You make a horror film that's not very good. You'd be joining a long line, in a long video aisle, of stuff that doesn't work.

I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people.

I would like to do something really big and then something really small, and see what it's like to work in that way, but in front of a live audience.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

I felt like I did lots of crappy work in the past. I can't even tell.

I get to work on things I've never done before and I get better at it, and I can do things that are innovative. Which I've done in my fifties, and want to continue to do through my sixties.

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a second time director.