My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.
There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.
I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.
I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.
If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it's an incomparable experience.
My experience with 'Last Resort' is very different from most of the cast. While they are next to a mountain, I'm always within the four walls of my home.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.
I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.
'Entourage' is a very, very, very unique acting experience. I could go in to win 1000 Academy Awards, and it would never be as much fun as the show.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
I'm a journeyman actor. My experience as a journeyman actor is that you have to go where the work is. I've never been the lead; I've never been in that position.
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
