Quotes About Experience

Chris Paul is a guy I can talk to about different stuff, especially when I played on his team.

My career path is like crazy paving - it goes all over the place.

My first TV experience, it was so bad. I just didn't feel a creative atmosphere. I felt like we were just pawns to deliver lines. Everyone was telling me that's just television. I said, 'OK, I'm going to stay far away from television!

People shouldn't go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely.

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.

One of the things I've learned over the years is that you only do what you can do as an actor. You do the best job you can, but you have no control over so many elements that are going to determine the outcome of that film. I never pay attention to what happens after.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

I think, in a film that's supposed to last an hour and a half, I think you have to really pay attention to what kind of movie you're making, what is the audience experiencing, and does this joke fit with this joke?

At my age, I dare say I've kind of established myself, and I don't have to chase a paycheck.

There's a couple of times that I did it for the... paycheck. Even when I was younger - I remember I did this movie that wasn't good, called '1969.' I totally did it 'cause I could get out of school.

We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.

My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

There are restaurants you can go in and pay $100 a person for a meal. I get as much satisfaction out of paying $25.

I'm in the position where I don't have to make commercial music to feed myself, so I have the luxury of being more experimental, if that's what I choose to do. I guess I've earned the right by being in the business for a while and paying the dues and taking the lumps.

When I was 18, I went into the army as a payroll clerk because otherwise I was headed for Korea.

I've had some great gigs and had horrible ones. I always look at the horrible ones, and think there's got to be something in this that I can use later in my show. It all pays off in the end.

I have been thinking about joining the Peace Corps. That is something that I would absolutely love to do. I think that would be an incredible experience, so that's an avenue that I might want to look at.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

My parents were in the Peace Corps.

I feel like it's my duty to keep it real for my community of moms out there for both my own peace of mind and the fact that some of you may be going through or have experienced what I am!

Being a new mother was a joyful and sometimes overwhelming experience - and as the first Missouri female state legislator to have a baby while in office, having heath care for myself and my son gave me some needed peace of mind.

Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

I have a great curiosity to see new things, but not to own them. It's very peaceful this way, and one of the nice things about getting older.