Quotes About Experience

The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 65, you think, 'I could play Juliet now. I understand it.'

The way to write really good songs is to write about the things that happen in your life and where you are in the moment, and writing about stuff that happens in your 30s is not the sexiest song subject.

I've experienced a lot of sexism in football.

They had absolutely no sexual interest in me.

I don't know a single woman in her 40s who isn't incredibly full of life and sexuality and desire for everything. There's nothing sexier than life experience, and there's nothing sexier than knowing your own body and having a little bit of experience with that.

It was a joy to do something sensual and sexy. It was exciting. I don't get many of those types of roles.

In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

As an actor, I love doing projects that shake you to the core.

I don't think I've ever gone home and not been able to shake it off. I like having my own life too much!

When I was 15 years old, I saw my first production of a Shakespeare play at the British pavilion at the Century of Progress World's Fair in Chicago.

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.

I've worked in predominately male sets my entire life. Shakespeare? Let's talk about that.

At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out and play it.

For me, 'Shanghai' is beyond language. For me, it's good cinema. The language is incidental.

I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up.

I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.

I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life out of England. Of course, I will never know, but I think I prefer what did happen.

All the moments I've had in the last 10, 15 years as a player have maybe shaped me to where I am today. But the way I live my life, the way I think I want to be positive, happy, to have experiences that I can look back on.

Everything about who I am, negative and positive, is what shaped me.

Music is such an incredibly affecting part of any movie-going experience, and it just... it shapes your whole experience.

I have authentic wisdom to share with others.