Failure is a great teacher and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences then you've got something to share.

It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy era and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act we're all actors we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

Many children are natural fantasists I think perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny because when we found out we were pregnant I said 'Okay let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.

At our best it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year so there are some clunkers.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

Well you know the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

The most important training though is to experience life as a writer questioning everything inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that all the other things will come if you don't there's no hope for you.

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

I love music and after my first experience with movies I can't wait to do more.

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

But because we've all been readers we know what the experience is like and we hope that what certain writers have given to us we will give to someone.

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

For me it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market and we don't know frankly how it would work under every scenario.

And so I think that if the person has the funds the network and the equipment to do this and also the experience which is the key factor then they can be quite deadly.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue but more frequently of her experience.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

You're working on being a father so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time you want to be truthful to the predecessors because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.