Quotes About Experience

The only dancing I did was at the discotheques. I was a very good disco dancer. I say that I learned disco dancing at the wrong places.

When I started writing songs at 18, I wrote about 100 that were crap. One was called 'Dog In A Disco.'

I think there is sort of a disconnect in this country between people that served in the military, understand the culture of it and what it is, and the people who only know what they see on the news and read - and they don't really get a feel for the culture.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty.

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

I want to discover more things about acting.

Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.

Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

I think all literature should be read as comparative literature. And I think we should write out of what we know, but in the expectation that we can be changed at any moment by something we have yet to discover.

I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten.

I didn't really discover 'Risky Business' until later in life because I was so young when it came out.

Usually, I don't feel comfortable with a character until I've played him before an audience for several performances. It is not until after three months of performing that I learn to discover what I call 'all the nooks and crannies' of the person.

If you do something mechanically for years to come, you tend to think that is life, but put yourself in a totally bizarre location, and you tend to discover so many aspects of yourself and life in general.

When I started acting, I did many films without even an idea of what the script was about. The film would start, and then we would discover what we were expected to do on the sets. Those days have changed.

My first dream was to travel. I was attracted to different places, different colors of skin, different food. When I was 18 in 1977, I went to Europe with my accordion and discovered the pleasure of entertaining people.

I discovered the Four Seasons brand many years ago. There is a certain magic.

The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

I had 10 wonderful years in Spandau Ballet. It was an incredible way to grow up, to hang out with your best mates, discovering the world, discovering who you are.

My movies had flopped but discovering theatre was perhaps the biggest things that happened to me at 22.

I don't personally feel like I've dealt with any sort of discrimination or sexism. I'm not doubting that there might have been that going on and I just didn't read it that way.

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.