Experience quotes

“- Susan Stanton: Isn't that the thing experience teaches you? Not to get burned?
- Henry Burton: Does anyone ever learn that?
- Susan Stanton: Not the best people.”
Emma Thompson - Susan Stanton
Adrian Lester - Henry Burton

“- Doctor Aki Ross: All life is born of Gaia and each life has a spirit. Each new spirit is housed in a physical body. Doctor?
- Doctor Sid: Go on.
- Doctor Aki Ross: Through their experiences on Earth, each spirit matures and grows. When the physical body dies, the mature spirit, enriched by its life on Earth, returns to Gaia, bringing with it...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ming-Na Wen - Doctor Aki Ross
Donald Sutherland - Dr. Sid

“I know but this guy has no flying experience at all. He's a menace to himself and everything else in the air... yes, birds too.”
Kenneth Tobey - Air Controller Neubauer

“- Swede Johanson: Sir, I'll wait outside for the MPs to come.
- Highway: Negative, Johanson! You're going to become a Marine, right now.
- Swede Johanson: [incredulous look as he realizes he will not be sent to the stockade]
- Highway: [softly] Fall out...
- Swede Johanson: Yes, sir.”

Peter Koch - 'Swede' Johanson
Clint Eastwood - Highway

“Dog poo. This is awesome.”

Jake Gyllenhaal - Jimmy Livingston

“Why is it that ones who always bring up the past are those who never lived in it?”
George Segal - Walter Whitney

“We scientists should get out of the lab more often; we might learn something!”
Daniel J. Travanti - Arnold Mayer

“This is my first experience with burlesque. It's a surprising profession.”
Charles Dingle - Inspector Harrigan

“Well, now, I've always believed that done properly, armed robbery doesn't have to be a totally unpleasant experience.”
Brad Pitt - J.D.

“- Clothing Store Woman: Have you ever had experience?
- Sean: With what?
- Clothing Store Woman: Women's clothes?
- Sean: What the fuck would I be doing with women's clothes? What do I look like a transvestite? I'm not no fucking transvestite, all right?”

Joyce Cohen - Clothing Store Woman
Devon Sawa - Sean

“Life's full of lessons Drew buddy, no ones above them. Not you, not me.”
Clancy Brown - Gus Gilbert

“You can't learn by forgetting.”
Will Sampson - Taylor

“That's how history is made, Henry: by the first-timers.”
Emma Thompson - Susan Stanton

“- Reggie Hammond: You said bullshit and experience is all it takes, right?
- Jack Cates: Right.
- Reggie Hammond: Come on in and experience some of my bullshit.”
Eddie Murphy - Reggie Hammond
Nick Nolte - Jack Cates

“- Lenny Ish: What is the worst thing that you have ever done?
- Sonny Rose: Me? Uh, uh... I don't really know.
- Lenny Ish: That means you haven't done it yet.”
Philip Baker Hall - Lenny Ish
Elias Koteas - Sonny Rose

“I've taught you much, my little droogies.”
Malcom McDowell - Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

“We were saved. Nando and Canessa breached the Andes and we were saved. Later a group went back and buried the bodies. They built a rough stone altar by the grave, and over it they placed an iron cross. There's nothing more I can tell you. We were brought together by a grand experience.”
John Malkovich - Narrator

“- Alfie Byrne: I've learned a horrible lesson.
- Adele Rice: About me.
- Alfie Byrne: About myself.”
Albert Finney - Alfred Byrne
Tara Fitzgerald - Adele Rice

“- Flora Poste: I want to learn about real life.
- Charles Fairford: What for?
- Flora Poste: To put it in books.”
Kate Beckinsale - Flora Poste
Christopher Bowen - Charles Fairford

“It was a once in a lifetime thing, David. I know that! And it came in a time when we were too young to handle it. That was the terrible part.”
Brooke Shields - Jade Butterfield

“I was lying there, just looking at the sky... and then I felt something. I don't know I... all I know is that I wasn't alone, and for the first time in my life... I wasn't scared of nothin'... I mean, not even dying. It was God!”
Matthew McConaughey - Palmer Joss

“I'm a reasonable guy. But, I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.”
Kurt Russell - Jack Burton

“- Suzanne: Did you ever wanna sleep with a man?
- Reggie: No.
- Suzanne: Never?
- Reggie: No. I don't blame you though Suzanne, I mean, well see, women's bodies are beautiful. But men's bodies, see I see 'em everywhere you know, in the locker rooms, their cocks all over the place and everything.”
Melinda Dillon - Suzanne
Paul Newman - Reggie

“- Professor Henry Jones: Those people are trying to kill us!
- Indiana Jones: I know, Dad!
- Professor Henry Jones: This is a new experience for me.
- Indiana Jones: It happens to me all the time.”

Sir Sean Connery - Professor Henry Jones
Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones

“- Andrew: Dulcy's cute, Maxwell. What is she? Twelve years old? Thirteen? What?
- Maxwell: She's twice that, Andrew! She's very experienced. She couldn't keep her hands off of me on the way up here.
- Andrew: Oh, Jesus, when are you gonna grow up? You're like one of those creatures in Greek mythology who's half-goat.
- Maxwell: You only live...” (continue)(continue reading)
Woody Allen - Andrew
Tony Roberts - Maxwell