Quotes About Experience

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

How do we compete with the 3D superscreens at the cineplex? We just make it better - because theatre is better because it's live. Instead of trying to be like the poor cousin, we need to accept that we're the king.

I know I'm not the only kid that moved to America and had to live with 30 cousins in one house.

I actually covered a fire once at the apartment complex where I was living.

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

My mom likes to say I've been covering news since the day I was born - longer if you count my time in utero.

I feel like I've been playing, coaching and covering basketball my entire life.

I'm kind of living my life, and I feel like I'm still young, I'm 34... I'm just enjoying married life and trying to deal with this COVID thing.

You only learn if you're given a crack at things.

Yes, I've been down the pike and back. And through the years, I've heard different songs with scatting in it, and it was - always cracked me up as kind of a funny style of music, you know? When I did it, it kind of cracked me up as a comedy kind of routine.

It taught me something. It taught you your craft.

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

I care deeply about craft: the quality of how something is made and the experience it enables.

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

To be a young Irishman in London and go to the theater to see 'Rosemary's Baby'... it scared the crap out of me.

There's something to be taken from every job, whether it's crap or good. Sometimes, on the awful ones, I get more of an education about other areas of my business.

I can only write about what I know, I'd be crap anywhere else.

The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.

I remember, my first season was 1999, and I must have crashed about 13 times in that first year. But then, in the second season, you crash about half as much and then, in the third year, even less again.

Most riders, experienced riders, if they go down in a crash and don't get up straight away then they know something is wrong.