I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience as far as being an actor is concerned.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

I had great faith in Irish actors that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But at least in my experience you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

All experience is subjective.

I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband experience being a father experience maybe hopefully someday being a grandfather and all those things. I want that experience. When I die I want to be exhausted.

Every experience feeds an actor and I've learned that depression is all around us.

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done so in a way I had nothing to compare it to.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience what goes on inside someone's head that being all they really know of the world.

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

I wanted to experience New York to look up and see buildings.