Quotes About Experience

When my mom grew up, her father was in the military so she grew up all over the world. She lived in Germany, Jerusalem, Switzerland, all over.

I was born in Switzerland and raised all over Europe, basically.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.

A sore ankle, a swollen knee or a bruise makes you feel alive.

I have done martial arts my whole life, so it comes easily, but I have never done proper sword fighting.

I think my first actual real job was a door-to-doors salesperson for Foxtel, a cable TV company, and that lasted a couple of weeks because I got held, like I wouldn't say at swordpoint, but I was kept in someone's house against my will and she did have a sword and was sort of brandishing it.

My first movie was 'The Mask Of Zorro,' and that was all swords and horses and swashbuckling, and I thought, 'This is what movies are.' Obviously, I never made another one like that again; those are very rare.

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

I grew up in Sydney, Australia, and I started doing acting classes when I was in eighth grade.

I did pretty well at the Sydney Olympics, but those were my first Games.

I got expelled from every school I went to in Sydney.

When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.

My father went to boarding school in Sydney when he was 14.

I kind of assumed all of Australia was like the Gold Coast - so I was telling people Australians just work out and go to the beach. Like, Australia has it figured out! But then I went to Sydney, and it was nothing like the Gold Coast - but I still loved it.

I know how to get around London better than Sydney.

I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.

My first job in advertising was actually in the mailroom of Grey Advertising in Sydney.

I'd really like to go Sydney. I've been to Australia a few times, but I have never been there.

For years I didn't really fancy America. I hated it when I first went to LA, it's like a dirty Sydney. But having a job helped.

My first five years on this planet were spent in Sudan and Zambia and after a short stint in London my family finally settled in Sydney. Right off the bat I knew I was different from the other kids.

Kuala Lumpur was my first ever multi-sports games. I didn't do very well but the experience and enjoyment I had of those games really made me realize how much work I had to do and inspired me to work harder for the Sydney Olympics.

I have spent a lot of time in L.A. It's sort of like my third home - Sydney, rural Tasmania and then L.A.