Category

Experience

Its wonderful to be in love. And its definitely wonderful to cuddle and have sex and get to experience life with somebody. But its OK if you dont find him and youre 24. You can find it someday. – Leighton Meester

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and its very limited in what it can do logically. Its an existential experience – there and then gone. – Bill Moyers

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you cant teach people that – they have to learn by experience. – Dorothy L. Sayers

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldnt find a place for myself, for years and years. – Isabel Allende

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when Im in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they dont know who theyre talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. – Harrison Ford

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldnt have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way. – Mos Def

Thats one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot. – Liev Schreiber

I was an only child. Ive known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents. – Jane Smiley

Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. Its such a bizarre experience. I dont think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, youre probably not that good anymore. – Liev Schreiber

I definitely feel more complete than before. Theres a void you have when you dont feel youve found the other part of who you are, so Im in a different place now and thats nice to experience. – Mariah Carey

I think its really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what youre going to do. – Liev Schreiber

Im a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it. – Sherman Alexie

You cant dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell. – Terry Bradshaw

Ive learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, its important to knock them down a peg. – Jonah Hill

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and theres something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly its not something that youre in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience. – Carrie Fisher

Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless Id gotten a piano scholarship. And now Im so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, youre flexing a different muscle, but its beautiful because it is music. – Jamie Foxx

Theres full consensus in the military that women shouldnt be in person-to-person combat. I dont know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas. – Michelle Bachelet

Like every aspect of cancer Ive weathered thus far, todays experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun. – April Winchell

Ive had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. Theyll tell you when theyre grumpy. Theyll tell you when theyre okay. – Dominic Monaghan

If the experience of science teaches anything, its that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that. – John Polkinghorne