Experience quotes

“Experience has conditioned you into thinking that all hearts are red and all spades are black because their shapes are similar. It's easier for your mind to interpret them based on that past experience instead of being open to the idea they could be different.”

Chris Lloyd - Ray

“I'm a professional. I went to graduate school. I did all-nighters my senior year. I did a semester in Egypt. Do you have any idea what toilet paper feels like in Egypt? I delivered cinnamon rolls on a truck with bad suspension for three years! Do you know what that does to your kidneys? My poor kidneys! My freaking kidneys! My poor freaking...” (continue)(continue reading)

Oliver Platt - Peter Steinberg

“What's the point of breathing if somebody already tells you the difference between an apple and a bicycle? If I bite a bicycle and ride an apple, then I'll know the difference.”
Johnny Depp - Axel Blackmar

“I have seen a great many things. I have attended all the world's worst disasters, and worked for the greatest of villains. And I've seen the greatest wonders. But it's still like I said it was: no one lives forever.”

Roger Allam - Death

“Good judgment comes from experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
Jason Statham - Arthur Bishop

“- Shinzon: If you had lived my life, and experienced the suffering of my people, you'd be standing where I am.
- Jean-Luc Picard: And if you had lived my life, you would understand my responsibility to the Federation.”
Tom Hardy - Shinzon
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard

“People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.”
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

“I should be able to blow them away real easy. There's a lot more technique involved and you can't beat experience.”

Paul Sullivan - Carl Adams

“What's your type of girl? You know what, don't even answer that. Let's say its black chicks. Okay, that's your thing. For the sake of argument, that's your thing, okay? Why is that your thing? Because you did a detailed analysis of all racial types and you cross-referenced that analysis with a points-based system? No! You're just attracted to...” (continue)(continue reading)

Oscar Isaac - Nathan

“- Q: My complexion is hardly relevant.
- James Bond: Your competence is.
- Q: Age is no guarantee of efficiency.
- James Bond: And youth is no guarantee of innovation.”
Ben Whishaw - Q
Daniel Craig - James Bond

“- Lasky, Guard at Walleyworld: Rusty, may I call you Rusty? I had a bad experience on this ride once.
- Rusty Griswold: What happened?
- Lasky, Guard at Walleyworld: I threw up.”
John Candy - Lasky, Guard at Walleyworld
Anthony Michael Hall - Rusty Griswold

“You died a failure because you never tried.”

Robert Downey Jr. - Thomas Reilly

“I have learned from experience that a modicum of snuff can be most efficacious.”
John Neville - Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen

“- Dr. Raymond Stantz: You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909!
- Louis Tully: Felt great.
- Dr. Egon Spengler: We'd like to get a sample of your brain tissue.”
Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
Rick Moranis - Louis Tully
Harold Ramis - Dr. Egon Spengler

“Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.”
Marion Ross

“- Dr. Sam Hachiya: You come from Kansas City. What did you see?
- Dr. Russell Oakes: I was on the freeway, about 30 miles away. I'm not sure... it was high in the air, directly above downtown. Like the sun... exploding.”

Calvin Jung - Dr. Sam Hachiya
Jason Robards - Dr. Russell Oakes

“- Caleb: Nobody programmed me to be straight.
- Nathan: You decided to be straight? Please! Of course you were programmed, by nature or nurture or both and to be honest.”
Domhnall Gleeson - Caleb
Oscar Isaac - Nathan

“- Rob: Do you want to come back to my...
- Kate: Yes. Absolutely!
- Rob: Wow. Okay! Just to be clear, I was going to say my place...
- Kate: Uh-huh. I'm 37. I know how this works.”
Greg Kinnear - Rob
Tina Fey - Kate

“Experience is a harsh teacher. First comes the test, second comes the lesson.”
Tobin Bell - Jigsaw

“I know how important it is in life to measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.”
Emile Hirsch - Christopher McCandless

“You're getting older, and you'll see that life isn't like your fairy tales. The world is a cruel place. And you'll learn that, even if it hurts.”
Ariadna Gil - Carmen

“- Elsie: How come you got taken on as a Countess Lady's maid if you've got no experience?
- Mary Maceachran: She wants to train me. She said she didn't care about experience.”

Emily Watson - Elsie
Kelly Macdonald - Mary Maceachran

“- Charlie Conway: He doesn't exactly seem open to new learning experiences.
- Hans: The question is, are you?”

Joshua Carter Jackson - Charlie Conway
Joss Ackland - Hans

“Experience is a cruel teacher, gives the exam first and then the lesson.”
Leslie Odom Jr. - Declan 'Winky' Hall

You are gonna be so bad at sex the first time that you don't wanna have sex with someone you like, 'cause they'll think you're a weirdo for being so lame at it. So you wanna have sex with "hood rats" so that by the time you get to a girl that you do like, you won't be terrible at sex, you'll be mediocre at it. [pause] Probably still pretty bad,... (continue)(continue reading)
Seth Rogen - Cal