Top 70 Life Experience Quotes

At 18-years-old, you have no money. You have no game. Your life experience is limited to getting fired from a part-time gig at the driving range and totaling your mom’s Saturn Ion junior year.

As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.

Never negotiate with kids. They don’t have life experience, and they don’t have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.

I think it’s important and I think it’s true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn’t have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

Everything our mom taught us was from her life experience.

To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I’m getting there.

Of course, life experience changes and adds to writing. And observations change too, where you put yourself in relation to other people.

When I was doing stand-up, I was about twenty, and I really think that that’s a little too young. I didn’t have a whole lot of life experience to draw on.

Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I’m 46 years old now. I’ve had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

Kendrick Lamar taught me that life experience is an important part of being a good illustrator. When you’re illustrating a story, you have to go based off of your personal experiences.

I have a wife, a son, and I’ve had some practical life experience.

I’m just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don’t know if I’d have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.

I’ve been taught through life experience that, like, I’d better open my mouth and quickly define myself in a new space and with new people because, if I don’t, I will be defined.

I’ve had tragedy in my life, but I think that gives me a depth that I can bring to my work. I’d like to see more older women on TV because they can bring that life experience and emotion to a performance.

I grew up dancing and singing, and I pool together my life experience and relationships and put it into work.

I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.

On my first album some of the songs were written when I was 14 or 15 so your life experience means you change, but my style is similar.

If you’re a young person who wants to become an actor, it’s really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you’ve even said a word!

I got tired of Los Angeles, and I got tired of the game a bit. I wanted to have a different life experience, so I moved to England, and I lived in England for eight years, and I worked there.

Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody‘s had an experience just like you, somewhere.

We live in a fast-paced culture where we’re asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it’s a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for their first novel. Then you have to come up with something for the second novel, but you really don’t have anything to say.

I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that I play because I’m always trying to find somebody – or find characters to play that I can identify with on a personal level or relate to. And I think it makes for a little bit more of an honest portrayal.

U2 – that’s a band that never should have existed. There’s no life experience in any of their songs.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn’t a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

I’ve learnt from my life experience.

If ever I’m in trouble I ring my mum. She knows me better than anyone and has great life experience.

The kind of products you envision as an entrepreneur is a function of your life experience.

I have found, in my life experience with President Trump, when he’s out there himself and he’s being his fresh, authentic self, it’s very appealing to the people of the United States.

I’ve been lucky enough – well, maybe unlucky enough – to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that’s good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I’ve seen a lot and I’ve had my own experiences.

Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.

No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.

My life experience has made me realise what’s important and what is not.

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It’d be a feature, it’d be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

I need time to do whatever I want to do. What happens to an actor that has no life experience? They don’t know how to act as a different role. So, that’s really important to do.

Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them – whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

I just really love hanging out with really old people. They’re the best dinner dates you could ever have. All that life experience and understanding.

The next phase is to 2016, and yes, I want to be First Minister because I believe I have the life experience, and I’ve got a commitment to change.

Acting is a life experience. I’m always learning things when I’m making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

I think a lot of people are making music that shares their life experiences, and that’s what I choose to do, too, but in my life experience, I also choose to try to find the hope in the music, and I think a lot of it has to do with my Christian faith.

A bit of perspective and life experience isn’t a bad thing.

I don’t have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It’s my life experience.

Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.

With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.

My life experience confirms that the U.S. government frequently overclassifies data. But that’s a stronger argument for not dumping large volumes of government traffic on an unclassified personal server than it is a justification for retroactively challenging classification decisions.

The only reference in my life is my life, and it’s my life experience. It’s my environment. It’s my community. I’ve not made that for books.

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.

I want artists to tell their story and share their life experience.

Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.

When you’re improvising, it’s fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that’s very helpful.

I never really got the chance to scream about some of the painful things. In the book, I look at my whole life experience, at ego and fame, too.

I worked in a factory for six months and was a firefighter in Cookeville for several years. They paid my tuition, and I got a lot of life experience during that time that helped me grow up.

In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.

From every life experience, fighting experience, I took the right lessons.

I’m not sure what my material would have been if I’d have started earlier. I probably would have started with ‘Damsels in Distress‘ kinds of films because that’s the kind of comedy I was writing in college. So I didn’t really have any life experience to work off of.

I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn’t have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.

You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we’re human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.

The main thing is that I’ve been studying composition for the last four years. I’d say it’s the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further.

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

Cinematography is so much about instinct and intuition – you want the same range of experience going into behind the camera as what you see in front of it. Your life experience will come through the lens.

I think people who don’t go away to university are missing out on one of the great life experiences. You meet people from so many different places and it’s the shared life experience that helps you grow.

I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.