Quotes About Experience

When I'm playing with my band, I designate different parts to feel different things. The bass pounds in your chest when you go to a concert. It almost replaces your heartbeat. Then the drums you feel on the floor.

It's easy to dismiss Cheeseburger. You look at him as a guy who is 5'8, 125 pounds, very inexperienced. I know not to judge a book by it's cover, and if a kid with those dimensions is willing to get in the ring with me and Kazarian, you know his heart is the size of Cleveland.

Of all the life skills I could have learned - First aid? Nah. But I can pour a pint.

Let's say you have white milk and chocolate milk, and one of them is good emotions and one of them is bad emotions, and you pour both in: you're still going to fill up and run over.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

I think people assume that because I talk the way that I talk that I grew up with money, and then I've had to say, 'No, I grew up poor.' And then I was like, 'Why do I have to play this game where the only black experience that's authentic is the one where you grew up in poverty?' I mean, it's ridiculous.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

Innocence can be more powerful than experience.

As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.

I really enjoyed doing Albee's 'The Goat.' It's a powerful piece and a really exciting play to do.

I am fascinated by women. They're as close as we men get to experiencing 'the other.' The challenge for me was to know and accept fully formed, powerful women.

I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.

I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.

Straight out of college, I worked at the Conservative Party but that was just a couple of years.

I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

I don't consider myself an educator.

My camping days are over, but I might consider glamping.

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

I'm a good listener, and I take into consideration everything people tell me, but at the same time, I believe my eyes as well as the experience I had as a player. So players who underperform? There has to be a reason why... my job is for them to perform.

One isn't considered a bobsledder if he hasn't crashed.

I have considered myself a mature actor.

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.