Quotes About Experience

I played central defender for the most part when I started playing football, either central defence or right-back.

I moved to Manchester United when I was a 17-year-old kid. Nemanja Vidic was five years older than me and Rio Ferdinand nearly nine years, and at the time, they were the best central defenders in the world. They never had a bad game.

Since my early days, I've been used to playing with older boys and strong defenders.

I'm definitely happy that I get to experience being a defending champion. That's quite special.

I actually was a defense attorney first.

With every look I can get and every defense I play against I get more experience.

I don't mind being the older guy that has to sacrifice and be the defensive anchor.

Positional awareness comes with experience, so getting game time helps, but we also work a lot in training as a back-line and also on defensive shape.

I define myself as the accidental entrepreneur.

A lot of writers don't know what it feels like to get on stage. They don't understand the weight that songs can carry. I got a chance to play all these shows. I got a chance to define myself through music, so when it comes to helping other people figure out what they should say, I've been through it.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

I grew up with games. It changed my life. It changed my social relationships with my friends. It defined my childhood. It's something I really cherished.

Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work, and you can see that in the work. That defines what type of actor you are. And what kind of people want to work with you. And whether you can do this job for a long, long time.

Even more than 'Swingers,' 'Go', for me, defines my career.

Our past absolutely defines everything we do in the present. We can't help it. We're made by the events of our past, so there's no escaping it.

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.

There's no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.

It was definitely a really lovely thing for me, doing 'Jools.'

Having a pulmonary embolism is definitely easier than heart break.

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.

'The Wicker Man' for me, as an actor, was definitely the best film I've ever done.

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

I didn't come from a combat sports background where I had a real definitive background in anything to fall back onto.