Quotes About Experience

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

I'm not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I've been able to continue one with (Gwyneth Paltrow) that's really valuable.

There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

Each job you have has it's own challenges. One of the great things about my job, is that each film is a different journey.

My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.

Opening for Louis C.K. during his "Hilarious" tour was a great experience for me. He is the generation just ahead of me, because he started so young.

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

There have been great things that happened to me.

I went to great schools. Wharton School, a lot of great places.

Movies are fun because it's usually anywhere from a month to six months that you're filming and you can really connect to some great people and have a lot of fun and go some cool places.

I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

Television is a pretty great job, to begin with, and I wouldn't have anything, if it weren't for the jobs that I've had in the past that have built up to that

Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.

Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic.

One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.

Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.