Leslie Odom Jr. Quotes

Every experience makes you grow.

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together.

I've learned my lessons, but I'm also still learning them.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

I learned from my past.

I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

I'd like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change people's lives.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

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'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.