Quotes About Experience

'Color-blind' comes up - people say 'Oh, I'm color-blind and therefore can't be accused of racism,' but I think that if we are going to have an honest dialogue about racism, we have to admit that people of color are having a different experience.

I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon. I was maybe 8 or 9.

I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.

You really don't need to study how to change a diaper. As a new mom, you learn pretty darn quickly!

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.

I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.

I've kept a diary since I was seven years old, and I still write in mine.

I hadn't read Dickens for a while and doing 'Bleak House' was great.

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

'Die Hard' was a really awesome experience, but I was too young to understand what a big film it was.

I have died in enough TV and films.

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.

At my first amateur fight, I was seven years old. My dad took me to go fight San Diego.

I am from San Diego, and I went to college in Boston, so I have seen the opposite coasts.

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

I've done every diet there is.

I would have never wanted to write another management book. There are so many of them, and everybody says the same thing about them, and they are all the same - they give the exact same advice. It's like a diet book; they all say eat less calories, exercise more, and every single book has the same conclusion.

No crash diets work. I have tried everything, believe me.

I enjoyed living abroad. I enjoyed the differences as much as anything.

Different characters help you grow in cinema.

I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

Love me some oysters. I always try them in different countries and cities.