I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity but I'm too classy to bring that up.

I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way ' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

I can only speak from my own personal experience being behind the camera and in front of it but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.