Quotes About Experience

I've only been to jail once, and I didn't get my tattoos there.

I don't even know how many tattoos I got. I got three tattoos at my first session.

I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.

I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.

It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.

'Tattoos' reminds me of where I'm from, and some of the stuff I did when I was growing up. That was one of the things that was appealing about the song when I heard it the first time.

Most of my tattoos have a story. When people ask me, I tell them whatever they want hear. 'What's this tattoo? What does this mean? Does it hurt?' I tell them everything they want to know.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

If experience has taught me anything, it's to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick.

It was the Marines who taught me how to act. After that, pretending to be rough wasn't so hard.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.

The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.

Kendrick Lamar taught me that life experience is an important part of being a good illustrator. When you're illustrating a story, you have to go based off of your personal experiences.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

Some of the things I'm most proud of, it isn't because I think it's my best work; it's because of something that it's taught me.

I taught four classes in my life. They were a master class at Northwestern and three classes at Emerson when I was making 'Here Comes the Boom' in Boston.