Quotes About Experience

There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.

I don't know marketing... clearly in engineering school you don't get much marketing training.

For three months, when I was 23 years old, I worked as a clerk at Wandsworth Sewer.

Since I was in Cleveland, I've gone through a lot of different things.

I really enjoyed my time in Cleveland.

I've learned by experience that, if I get too clever with lyrics, or if I'm not totally embodying my own wants and needs in the songs, I can't remember them.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

It's a cliche, but my comedy is all about life.

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

No one has ever told me that I act badly. It is just that most of the films I did didn't click.

To me, it's just not that important whether someone climbs the Eigerwand in ten hours or in three.

The Nose is a beautiful route. The best thing is that, in one day, you get to climb so much. You climb and climb and climb the whole day.

The best climber in the world is the one that has the most fun.

I was a snowboard bum and a climbing bum.

I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.

I grew up rock climbing.

Climbing is not a competition, and you cannot talk in terms of 'greatest,' it means nothing.

I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.

Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls all had to change schools.

The movie has called it closed. I'm not saying I won't ever listen to 'Les Miserables' again. But it closed the door for me. It's gone its own way.

You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.

I do know I've lived through a bunch of things that people would maybe prefer I keep behind closed doors.

I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.