Quotes About Experience

I began to explore America in more general terms. I really started this work in 2009. I got the bulk of it done as I was easing out of Disco Night.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

I had an experience of knowing the Polish people when I was a child, and where my father worked many Poles came to work after the war. They were good people, and this has stayed in my heart.

The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.

In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

until you got ice cream spilled on you, you're not doing field work

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.

We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work from an artist that you love.

I wasn't doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn't one of those people.

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

I'm used to being the background. I'm used to having work that only lasts for a little while. I'm used to being - working in the real world, where real things are.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

There is a saying that every single person in the world has something to teach you. So the more people I get to work with, the more I can learn and the better actor I will become.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

I didn't go to film school. I just kept doing videos and whatever. So I guess I learned my education from just experience. Figuring out what worked and what didn't work.

I've done some good work and some not-good work.

If you're not in college and you don't know a cofounder, the next best thing I think is to go work at an interesting company.

It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.