Quotes About Journey

The road is the best spot to drive - just anywhere.

You have a soft spot in your heart for each movie, and you're doing certain things. You're learning as you're going, as a director, and each movie is its own entity.

There are a lot of people who dream of overnight success, of being Brad Pitt getting discovered for 'Thelma and Louise,' but that doesn't always happen. I represent that stick-to-it-ness that it takes to build a career over time, guest spot by guest spot. Looking back from here, I wouldn't have wanted the journey to go any other way.

If you don't get adventurous, you stay in the same spot; you don't really grow.

There's always a spot for rest, and I find a way.

Getting the spot of 'Blue Peter' changed the path of my life.

Listen, man, everybody has their own journey, obstacles, and some people get built through promotional companies to be a star, but really haven't fought the best guys out there. And then you have guys that really earned their spot and that happens to be me.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

You think the end of my freshman year, from nobody really knowing who I was to skyrocketing onto the scene in the national championship game, there's nothing but good things to say after that. Then you get into the spotlight and it turns to hate.

Perhaps, like the way these leaves spread out and the way they curl in many directions and how they have many features, I think that's how my road has been.

I like that 'Pitch Perfect' is one of my first forays into film and just being seen in that kind of light, aside from some people who know me from 'Spring Awakening' or the other things that I've done. I think in so many ways it's kind of like my own 'Glee' or 'Smash'.

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.

You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway show and do a movie and win an Oscar by the time I was 25. It turned out that I'm a long distance runner.

I had to play on many other teams before I made it on the Spurs. When you make that kind of journey, it only helps you when you get here.

When I set out to research the story of the Culper Spy Ring, I had no idea where it would take me.

I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.

I'm very fond of coming to St. Louis.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

I am very lucky that I came from a stable home, but I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life until acting sorted of landed in my lap when I was in my 20s. Acting, to me, was a bit like the ladder I used to climb out of feeling lost.

The only good part of driving to Anaheim is the In-N-Out just before you reach the stadium.