Quotes About Experience

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap.

From playwrights I had never heard of and performance forms I had never seen to sculpture and painting, I gained immense experience as an actor in National School of Drama (NSD). I discovered what discipline and good taste in the theatre means.

I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

What's important is that a customer should get off the airplane feeling, 'I didn't just get from A to B. I had one of the most pleasant experiences I ever had, and I'll be back for that reason.'

I can't remember a dish my mother made that to me was pleasant. To this day I have a phobia of instant noodles.

Okay, the experience itself was a pleasant experience.

No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

Unfortunately, my departure from Madrid was not pleasant, but those things are in the past, and I have learned a lot and matured.

When you're out there doing things, your adrenaline is rushing so much. But getting kicked in the face is never fun. There have been a lot of different painful things, but when you're kicked in the face or kneed in the face, it's not the most pleasant thing.

That's the challenge you take as a player, coach, whatever... executive... that you're gonna have to perform at a high level, whether that's by luck or whatever, by design, it has to get up there, otherwise it's not gonna be the most pleasant experience, but it's a challenge. And I think everybody would love a challenge like that.

You do not always have to play in the Camp Nous and the Old Traffords and with pleasant climates. It's different experiences that you take in... that's also a part of football.

My own dealings with the RSS and allied organisations have been extremely positive and a pleasant experience.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.

I've done some bits of shockingly bad TV that have never been shown, or at least I hope they've never been shown... Please don't dig them out!

It's really hard for me to meet someone. I don't want to date actors. Been there, done that. Only one actor per household, please.

I've learnt so much over time and with the experience that I've gained. You can't please everyone.

I'm really pleased with the way my career is shaping up. How many actresses get a chance to work with legends like Mani Ratnam and Sanjay Leela Bhansali?

I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.

I'm astonished to say, but people are really pleased to hear what happened to me, the way I got a little bit more confident, the people I've met, and the things I didn't know.