Quotes About Experience

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real world, I wasn't very good at it.

For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.

When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.

A good film is also a documentary

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.

Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who's reading it.

I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band.

You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.

He is a good kisser. I can definitely vouch for that.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way.