Quotes About Experience

What I really like is that Chicago is a big city: it has a large market, and you are exposed to everything, like shows and plays.

I've been exposed to so many different cultures.

When I was born, mom wasn't doing films at all, so I was never exposed that much to the world of acting.

Obviously, it's not the same when you play at wing-back. You don't have to defend as much. You don't get exposed in defensive situations as much as when playing as a full-back, so it is definitely different, but it is not something that it is totally alien to me.

As a kid, I got exposed to city government at an early age. I'm sure that rubbed off on me.

We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.

I thought I was done making CIA movies after 'The Bourne Identity.' I really had used my father's work in Iran-Contra on 'The Bourne Identity.' You get one experience like that in your life where you have personal exposure to something, and you put it in a movie. That's it.

I think anyone can write about anything that they have knowledge of and exposure to.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others.

Music is an expression of life, who you are, and what you've been through.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

In a fighter, you can't hold 4 G's for several minutes, not most aircraft. I've been able to feel that for a few seconds. But to have that for an extended period was just truly amazing.

Our live show is a definite experience, since it's an extension of my albums.

My theatre background is probably more extensive then my film, and I have done a fair bit of television.

There hasn't been one show that we did, that I didn't enjoy to some extent.

I view myself as an experimentalist. I've tried everything in the book, and I have replicated results to one extent or another.

I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.

When you're playing in front of people, everything is external. It's all going from you out to an audience. When you're in a studio, it's very internalised, it's going from the air through you into this meticulously crafted, layered piece of work.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

I've loved to be a part of anything, having an opportunity to entertain, to be a part of a film, or just continue to do what I'm doing, I'm so happy, so just making town after town, doing my thing, but if I have that opportunity to star in a film or be an extra, I don't care; its all a learning experience for me.

I go back to L.A. as often as I can, and even if I'm there on business, I always add on a few extra days for pleasure.