Quotes About Change

After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.

I was studying with Stella Adler, who was a great, great teacher who encouraged me to be an actor. I had thought I would just write or direct or whatever. I wasn't thinking very much of Hollywood. I was thinking only of the legitimate theatre. But then I changed.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

Having spent 10 years studying emerging markets, I know that you have patterns repeated over and over again. A bubble is like a fire which needs oxygen to continue... when you see there is no oxygen, things change.

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

I was studying to be a legal secretary when I was called to audition for 'Ken.'

After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.

When I was in my 20s, and even though I was studying medicine, I didn't ever really think that my body would fail. Now I'm in my 40s, I have to face a different reality - I, like everyone else, am slowly falling apart.

I was keen to become a dancer and was studying for it. Somehow, it did not work out and I joined theatre. I do not regret it.

When I look back at some of the Chicks stuff, it's the early stuff we did where we kind of giggle and go, 'You know what? Those were the good old days.'

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.

There's the hype stuff that people love for five minutes and then there's the stuff that changes cultures and shifts how you look at music. And then there's that rare point where that hype stuff changes the game.

It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

I used to own a stuffed piranha, but I haven't seen it in years. I don't even know what happened to it. Maybe my wife didn't want it to make the move from the last house to this one.

I had adapted to the blonde. So when they told me I'm going back to do these five episodes of 'Arrow', I was clearly really excited, but when they said I couldn't be blonde, it stung a little.

Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?

I was just stunned when I came to America. I didn't know anything about rock music or football, and I felt very out of it... America was like a foreign country to me at first.

I find it beyond stunning that there is a school of thought or two out there that swears we are into solids and that solids are bad and liquids are good.

'Pair of Kings' is so much fun, literally. It is a very physical show with loads of stunts and green screen work, and you never know what great adventure is ahead of you! It's also a nice change in terms of being of similar ages to Doc Shaw and Mitchel Musso.

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.