Quotes About Experience

It's been an amazing journey so far for me, in the places that I've gone and the people that I've met.

I don't think it's different to be a black girl in England than it is to be a black girl from America. We all collectively share in a pain of displacement and not feeling like we quite belong in places.

I'm hoping that other people can learn from me, both the mistakes I've made or the opportunities I've had, or for the decisions I've made: for instance, not to go and take a lot of different jobs in a lot of different places, but to stay in one place for most of my career.

Certain songs bring me back to certain places I've been in my life. So definitely, I listen to my stuff.

It becomes very easy as an actor to immerse yourself when you're in the real places.

Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.

In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before you deeply honored, mighty grateful and just plain gobsmacked.

It might sound unconvincing when an actor like me who has done 500 films says that television is more competitive than movies, but that is the plain truth.

Everything does not happen according to a plan, and you learn your lessons the hard way.

I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.

Just because I go out with a boy doesn't mean I plan to marry. I go out with a lot of boys.

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.

I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die!

Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run.

I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one-third on a plane.'

To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.

So far, and today, everything felt really great. Now I am good to get on the plane and fly to Australia.

I'd never been on a plane until I went to the Peach Bowl my freshman year at Iowa.