Quotes About Experience

'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

I have become politically correct now. I have curbed my enthusiasm. I am in my mid-40s, so it doesn't make sense to talk brashly like a 20-year-old.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Russ Feingold is a career politician. He's addicted to it.

I was not a politician.

Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician.

Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.

I'm a business guy. I'm not a politician.

I am not a professional politician.

Where I'm an outsider is, I'm not a career politician.

I have been a civil servant and a politician for over 30 years.

I do not purport to be a professional politician.

As an actor, the experience that I have as a politician while sitting in Parliament - that helps me enrich myself as an actor. But I am an actor first.

Anyone who knows anything about me should know by now I am certainly not exactly a good politician. I am also willing to admit to you now that I never went to any classes that had anything to do political science.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a career politician.

My biggest strength is I'm not a career politician.

Every politician goes through a lean patch during which they go back to their main area of expertise. Some return to business, some practice law, and I... have come back to cinema.

I am an elected official, a politician who has been very successful in Washington, in city halls and state houses for my entire career. If somebody wants somebody who needs on-the-job training, then they will not be able to vote for me.

The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.

I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

I'm not better than other politicians, but I'm different because I got into the game much later in life, after I had raised a family, after I had written a book, after I had been a successful lawyer. It's different when you get into this business after you've led a full life. I don't want to be a big man. I know who I am.

I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.