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I am a very professional man. I am not out for the experience of adventure.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience what things are funny and not.

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

I just love to experience things. I would do almost anything once.

I do not think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

Capital is not that important in business. Experience is not that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.

Well, for me, what I have learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

In some movies you feel like you are a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it is a more concentrated and quiet experience.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

I did not know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I will be all right.

I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there is an adjustment that you have to make.

My films do not give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.