Quotes About Experience

I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn't.

For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.

When I was younger, we went to Ibiza a lot because my parents bought an apartment there. I feel like that has always stuck with me.

There's nothing worse than being stuck with a bad song.

Obviously, with 'The Room,' I wasn't on set thinking 'I'm going to be Daniel Day Lewis' playing Mark, but explaining how I even got involved in the movie shows how we all get stuck in situations as actors - and this one ended up being one of the craziest.

I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.

I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.

I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.

Young and dumb is something you gotta go through, but you've got to be a student.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

Whether you're an athlete or a student, having an adult who believes in you and can give you advice and wisdom that is coming from a place of experience is an incredible asset to help guide you through your young life.

I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.

I was a horrible student.

Being able to access that Stanford alumni network was huge - I actually interned at PayPal while I was at Stanford and learned a lot. Being in that environment and learning about it as a student was really fun.

'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France.

My first-ever job in the movie business, I was an art student at Carnegie Mellon, and they were shooting the movie 'Gung Ho' in Pittsburgh, and I worked as an extra for a few days. Michael Keaton bumped into me in one scene, and it's in the movie. And I worshipped him.

As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.

I really didn't get to experience college. I enjoyed Ohio State, but I didn't feel like I had a chance to live the college life. When some guys got bored, they went out partying or to the student center. When I got bored, I went to the gym.

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.