Quotes About Experience

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton

I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

My father had very little formal education.

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.

It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

I saw The Empire Strikes Back the week that it came out. My father was a huge Star Wars fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.

I didn't do too much. I came here (to The Magic Castle) and learned about magic. I read a book, but not his father's book. Sorry about that.

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.

It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.

When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.