People grow; people grow apart, and cancer... I've had a very in-depth and personal experience with cancer, and it really causes a perspective shift.
You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.
The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.
From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.
My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.
When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.
I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.
I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.
It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barbaric human savage child for a month or so. It was a blast and definitely a great experience.
I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
There is only one issue: man's lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.
No matter what you're doing, live it. Make an experience. Have fun. Relate to someone. Take them in. Learn.
That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.
I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.
Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
Some people become so immersed an a show, they have an image that the actor is not too dissimilar, but fortunately I've never had that experience.
Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.
