Quotes About Experience

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

I like singing now, but I didn't at the start. I didn't think about singing, didn't know how to do it, so I hit the ground stumbling.

As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.

I've been stung by a jellyfish.

In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.

'400 Blows' was so much like my own childhood, it really stunned me.

I'm stunned that people keep asking me to play characters I didn't expect to play.

Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.

Colombia is so different to what I know, and every aspect of the country is different to England, and I loved it. I loved the culture and the food, and the coffee was amazing. The place that we were was stunning, and it really was quite an amazing experience to film out there.

Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

I coped OK with eating guinea pig, while staying at the stunning Mashpi Lodge, up in the cloud forest of Ecuador - but that's because mine was all cut up and served nicely.

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam.

I've had my face sliced open one day. Stunt man went one way, and I went the same way and had a few stitches.

I'm self-taught. Even today, on the sets, I probe the lightmen, the stunt artistes... they are from a period I've not seen; I can visualise it through them.

I've been put under 8.5G in a stunt aeroplane. I felt all right. Well, I lost my vision, but I was still conscious.

The more you do a stunt, the more you increase the risk of something happening.

It's all choreographed; it's a routine. So I told everyone I really wanted to try fighting in action films. I had no stunt experience, but I had the dance background, and I was very agile and coordinated. And the best thing about being a newcomer to acting is you can afford to try new things.

When you're dealing with a shoot day that's costing somebody $300,000; when you're responsible for making that day; when you've got a half-million-dollar stunt that you've got to make sure you cover properly. You don't want to be doing that early in your career. You want to be making your mistakes when not many people are watching.

I definitely dabbled and had done a number of stunt jobs in which I was doing fighting.

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.

I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

I would love to do my own stunts, but stunts are not something I have a lot of experience with.