David Carson Quotes

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.

How do you cut off the human side and just maintain being professional? So what I've done is I've incorporated that with Kojak - there's times when he allows the human condition, the human experience, to integrate into him as a professional.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't even know it, but whatever came up or whatever it is that you have to express at that time, has benefitted me in a particular way.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.

There are many things in common with my life and my character in 'American Crime.' My upbringing has definitely helped me out in this role.

I believe every person has a story that comes out from the way they talk, their opinion, their mindset and their body language.

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's point of view conveys all of these aspects of identity.

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

Your personality is something that you created. Once you are aware of that, you could create it whichever way you want.

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

Nobody told me how to talk or think.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

The whole point in developing your own style is to find your own voice.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

I believe that every person has uniqueness - something that nobody else has.

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.