Quotes About Experience

When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

You can't work on a film without being changed in some way.

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.

I think anyone who gives you relationship advice goes off of past relationships they have that didn't work. You've got to follow your own path.

I urge North Koreas leaders to reflect on Burmas experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I've been working for a long time and I've just really been allowed to work, with very little of the baggage and the pressures that can come with my job.

Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

To be able to work with someone who you learn so much from is a really valuable experience.

I have done very little in my life except go to school and work for the CIA. Intellectually I think I did everything I could. Emotionally you always think you should have something more.

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

I had never met Woody Allen before Melinda and Melinda. My agent knew the producer of the movie and he suggested that we would work well together and then we did. We had a great time on that film.

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.

There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.

[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you don't know, you can. It just takes a lot more work.

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.