Quotes About Experience

When I first started going to Portland, people told me about Stumptown. They were like 'Oh, it's the best coffee,' and I thought, 'How good could it really be?' I'm like, 'Sure, great, uh... I'd love to see it.' But then when I went, it truly, I am not kidding, is the best coffee I have ever had.

I live in Portland. I'm a man of the world, and I live in Portland.

I went to college on the East Coast in Portland, Maine.

I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by Jewish artists to try to capture the essence of a God experience that they believe they had with Jesus of Nazareth.

On the personal side, I was rock climbing and taking pictures with my friends. We took all sorts of portrait and action pictures, and I was thinking at the time that these are inherently difficult to focus correctly.

The characters I portray are an extension of what I've seen, heard, or read, and so what you see in my films are how I understand life.

On a film set, everything's done for you. You get to a stage where you can't even remember the last time you made yourself a sandwich. The crazy thing is that, as actors, we're trying to portray the human condition, but we're often not living in reality.

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

I have been lucky enough to portray many, many characters.

One doesn't necessarily have to be grey-haired to portray a mother.

As actors when we have to emote, we internalise things, find moments that hurt us and portray them.

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

As an actor, I think the experience and the portrayal of the character is exactly the same. It doesn't make any difference what camera is capturing it. You have to do it with the same passion.

Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

What's great about acting is that there's never a moment when you're like, 'OK, I got this, I understand this.' You're portraying life, and it's a craft that only gets better with time - kind of like playing a musical instrument: the more you get to play it, the better you are.

When I started with Ramesh Sippy's 'Buniyaad' in 1985, I was in my mid-20s and within a year, I was elevated from a lover to a father and then to a grandfather. By the time the show finished, I was portraying the role of an 80-year-old man.

The challenge is always in portraying characters who've led a very different life from your's as you get to work on the character.

I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an English school.

With my experience with Metallica, I've already surfed Portugal, Morocco, and all over Australia with Kirk.

I'm from Scotland, one of four daughters, and we grew up moving every few years between Scotland, Portugal, Colombia and Scotland again.

We know about Portuguese football, we know the Portuguese culture.

I don't think I met anyone posh until I went to London.

I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.