Quotes About Experience

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same.

You can't live in a town like Braddock and not know exactly what gunfire sounds like.

No one tells a child how to see, especially in the early years. They learn this through real-world experiences and examples.

Whenever I approach any character, I try to find examples to draw upon.

We have had examples in our industry of people working for 30-40 years because of their ability to act. Your looks leave you after a point, you don't look the same way you did when you were in your 20s or 30s. After that you have only your ability to show.

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

I've been acting since I was 9, but in college I entered the drama program, and I didn't excel at it at all, kind of for the first time.

I've seen my share of bad goalkeeping, and I've had my moments. But I've seen some excellent goalkeeping as well.

In Harrods you get some exceptional services.

I was lucky enough to experience an exceptional period with City. We won so much and played great football.

I've wanted to be a part of the Premiership for some time, to experience the excitement and the atmosphere.

People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch.

I've had such an exciting life.

Everyone in the '80s grew up, and for a lot of the film executives, that's what they know and love.

I find it very important to keep learning because, as an actor, you get exhausted. You need more emotion, more experience... you need something to base everything on.

Living in London is funny - sometimes I love it and think it is absolutely amazing, but sometimes it is just exhausting.

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

I'll read a book. I'll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I'll go to an art exhibit and just try and open myself to influence.

We make films because cinemas exhibit it, and they exhibit as we make films.

Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.

Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn't know it.

I want life. I want to feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in this blink-of-an-eye existence we have, to feel all that can be felt.

Usually, a band 20 years into its existence doesn't put out its best records.

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.