Quotes About Experience

Los Angeles has been good to me.

I have sort of a life in Los Angeles.

I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you. The experience was so good.

It is strange when you're a loser in college, which I was, to then get your own show.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.

From my three loses in my entire career I've always learned from them and came back stronger.

The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.

Losing other people's money was terrible.

So many of my friends are actors, and so many of them are great, and they're losing jobs to people who have never been in plays before; I understand that sometimes I'm part of the problem. But I'm trying to figure out how to balance it.

Every fight and every loss taught me something.

I've been an NBA player, and a black man, for a long time, and I know how to take a loss.

Obviously, you grow with mistakes and losses, you grow more.

I think you learn a lot from losses.

I try to learn from my losses, see how they can help me in the future.

I do watch some of my losses, but it just makes me think, 'Well, you know, should have done this; could have done that.' But that's why I don't like watching it. It's a shoulda/coulda/woulda thing.

All the things I went through, my losses, those really helped me.

You always learn a lot more when you lose.

I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.

Kroos was right to go abroad. It was like winning the lottery.

When you're with a bunch of loud 20-year-olds, if you're on a movie and everybody is a lot younger than you and they want you to go to a club, I'm not very comfortable in that situation. I've been on movies when everybody goes out to some loud place. I don't know; I'm not comfortable.

For me, I really like listening to music really loud.

I worked at a Books-a-Million in Louisville for several years.