Quotes About Transition

When I first moved here, I almost felt like I was obligated to hate L.A. as a New Yorker. I moved way too fast for this city. I walked everywhere, and I was lonely, too. It was a really hard time not knowing anybody, and you don't run into people the way you do in New York. You can go a week without seeing anyone.

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

I'm a New Yorker. I never thought I'd say that.

When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place.

When I was out in Portland there was a lot of really great things about it. But being home, I'm a New Yorker, and I think I've really enjoyed being back out here.

I'm never going to stop making theatre, but I don't think I'll make it as much, because I don't need to. There are other things I want to do with my life. I want to sit by the sea in Yorkshire and eat Eccles cakes and spend time with my family.

I grew up in North Yorkshire, but now London is home.

Well, I moved around quite a lot so I was born in Yorkshire and then I moved to Blackpool, which is like North England.

I was pretty much a goody-two shoes at school - a bit boring, didn't get in trouble with teachers - it was classical Yorkshire: a lot of respect to your elders. Once I started playing cricket that sort of slipped away.

When I came into the Yorkshire academy I was christened Bluey almost immediately.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

You don't have the same mentality as you did five years ago - even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I think every child actor has that moment where they're like, 'OK, I'm not the same person that I was, and you guys need to see me as something different.'

The generation that I'm in is extremely talented, and those that are still in school, my peers that are my age that will be out here really soon, you guys will see, will make a pretty easy transition on the PGA Tour. I don't think they will have a problem at all. The game is getting younger, and the game is getting better.

I wasn't getting a lot of game-time at Liverpool, you guys could see that. I was just playing cup games and stuff like that.

Young Thug, he gave me all the jewels. He literally paid me to leave the neighborhood.

I change my style maybe every month. I'm, like, punk one month, ghetto fab the next, classy the next. I'm just young and finding out who I am.

I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.