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I think it is really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you are going to do.

I am a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.

You can not dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.

I have learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it is important to knock them down a peg.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there is something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it is not something that you are in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I do gotten a piano scholarship. And now I am so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you are flexing a different muscle, but it is beautiful because it is music.

I hate these platforms that are all over the place today they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.

There is full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I do not know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: You can do it. So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

Like every aspect of cancer I have weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.