Quotes About Experience

I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

When I was a backup singer, I enjoyed it.

I'm a little bit backward. I didn't really go to school.

When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

There are good days and there are bad days, and I've had my share of both.

When you are young, you sometimes play one good game and then one bad game.

I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

I've never had an acting lesson in my life. I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.

I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

Bad thing about playing at Alabama? I really didn't have any bad moments.

Listen: when you work for an employer for six years, are you gonna sit here and tell me you ain't gotta bad thing to say about them?

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a safe environment like 'Arrow' was pretty amazing.

We've all done a lot of bad things in life. And I think you have to learn from what you do, and really think about, after you've done those mistakes, how to not do it again, and how to approach things differently.

Every manager goes through bad times.

I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.

I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

Our mums came on tour and mine was baffled by it all. She kept saying in the car: 'You just do this on your own? Don't you want to be with people? This is so lonely!' I guess we're just used to it. It is a funny little world.

If you go into a relationship when you're 16, you've got no baggage.

I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film.

We all have baggage. The question is: What baggage can you deal with?

People don't look at you singing. They go within themselves and listen. Music is about listening, not looking. That's why I wore these huge baggy dresses on stage with The Cranberries.

You have to know what you're doing, you have to be experienced. You can't just say, 'I'm an actress in 'Scott & Bailey,' I'm going to write an episode.'