Experience quotes

“I've got not much to say. I don't think I've learned a lot of things over the years: I've learned that there are thousands of thoughtless things you can do. And among these things one is more thoughtless than the others. And that's the one you usually do. I've learned that black clashes with blue. I've learned that some odours settle in your...” (continue)(continue reading)
Federico Fellini

“You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.”
Oprah Winfrey

“- Iris Gaines: You know, I believe we have two lives.
- Roy Hobbs: How... what do you mean?
- Iris Gaines: The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.”
Glenn Close - Iris Gaines
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs

“There must have been a moment at the beginning, where we could have said no. Somehow we missed it. Well, we'll know better next time.”
Tim Roth - Guildenstern

“An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.”
James Dean

“With a second marriage, you keep your fingers crossed and you act optimistic. Somebody did say that a second marriage is a victory of hope over experience.”

Natalie Wood

“It's a procedure. Like rebuilding a carburetor has a procedure. You know, when you rebuild a carburetor, the first thing you do is you take the carburetor off the manifold? Supposing you skip the first step, and while you're replacing one of the jets, you accidentally drop the jet, it goes down the carburetor, rolls along the manifold, and goes...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joe Pesci - Vinny Gambini

“- Lieutenant M.R. Ring: [bumps into Highway] Excuse me, sir. I mean, Gunny. Sergeant Major.
- Choozoo: Sir. This is Gunnery Sergent Thomas Highway. He's been assigned to Recon Platoon.
- Lieutenant M.R. Ring: Oh, outstanding, welcome aboard. Well, I have to hightail it men. I'm late for pre-scuba school.
- Lieutenant M.R. Ring: [looks at...” (continue)(continue reading)
Boyd Gaines - Lieutenant Ring
Arlen Dean Snyder - Choozoo
Clint Eastwood - Highway

“For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.”
Joaquin Phoenix

“- Lt. Topper Harley: So... I guess you've been with a man before...
- Ramada Thompson: I'm a virgin. I'm just not very good at it.”
Charlie Sheen - Lt. Topper Harley
Valeria Golino - Ramada Thompson

“Been around the world twice. Talked to everyone once. Seen two whales fuck, been to three world faires. And I even know a man in Thailand with a wooden cock. I pushed more peeter, more sweeter and more completer than any other peter pusher around. I'm a hard bodied, hairy chested, rootin' tootin' shootin', parachutin' demolition double cap...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alexander Ludwig - Shane Patton

“- Henry Frapp: I holed up behind some rocks' but that didn't do no good... because they just kept on a-comin', entire Sioux nation. Me outta powder, outta lead. Goddamn, I was one scared nigger!
- Bill Tyler: I thought you said they was 'Rapaho.
- Henry Frapp: No, goddamnit! They was Pawnee!
- Bill Tyler: Well, what happened to you?
- Henry...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brian Keith - Henry Frapp
Charlton Heston - Bill Tyler

“Some lessons can't be taught, Elektra. They must be lived to be understood.”
Terence Stamp - Stick

“Never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Richard

“Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones.”
Slim Pickens - Maj. 'King' Kong

“- Annie: Pepper lies a lot. She probably hasn't been to a movie, either. Actually, I think it's better when you don't know what you're missing.
- Daddy Warbucks: Punjab, buy out the 8:00 show. Let's all go to the movies.”

Aileen Quinn - Annie
Albert Finney - Daddy Warbucks

“Think big, think positive, never show any sign of weakness. Always go for the throat. Buy low, sell high. Fear? That's the other guy's problem. Nothing you have ever experienced will prepare you for the absolute carnage you are about to witness.”

Dan Aykroyd - Louis Winthorpe III

“We all got to be ashamed once. So we don't do things again when we got be ashamed of.”

Spencer Tracy - Manuel

“You experience things and then they're over, and you still can't explain them.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark

“- Kevin Scott: I was discharged for striking a radio operator who fell asleep at his post. You're worried that I have no combat experience. You're right. There's no way of proving that I won't fail in combat. But then again, you can't prove that I will, either.
- Sailor: This is gonna' be a whole lotta' fun with this one.”
Patrick Swayze - Kevin Scott
Randall 'Tex' Cobb - Sailor

“Personally I know nothing about sex, because I've always been married.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor

“That was the single most thrilling experience of my entire life.”

Kathy Baker - Joyce

“If the ability to make use of experience and draw conclusions decided, we would have forgotten what war it is a long time ago. But those whose goal is war have never been held back, nor will be, by experience or analogy.”
Anya Chalotra - Yennefer

“No matter how secure we are, we all experience moments of dread. It may be just before we open our credit card bill or hand over a note to our teacher or step on the scale after a week away from the gym. Yes, we all experience moments of dread. And sometimes, we have no one to blame but ourselves.”
Brenda Strong - Mary Alice Young

“Nothing in high school lasts forever.”
Colman Domingo - Ali