Quotes About Transition

I went into dancing but damaged my knees so decided to become an actress instead.

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.

I was a Knicks fan until the day I bought the Bulls.

I got so used to using chopsticks that using a fork and knife is weird.

Once I won the roles in 'Spender' and 'First Knight' it was much easier for everyone, me included, to get their heads around the idea of me being an actor.

In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.

Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it is.

I was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong the year I was five.

At Kobe, whither I fled from Hong Kong, I took a step of great importance. I cut off my cue, which had been growing all my life.

I was born and raised in West Hills. I moved to Korea when I was 15. I've been back and forth since.

I had worked as a runway model for six years in Korea before I flew to New York.

I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?

'Kung Fu' was never cancelled; I just left. I decided I had enough of it, and I thought I should do a movie right away, because I think when you leave a television series, it's important that you establish the fact that you're a movie actor really quickly, or you might never get that chance.

I will never do another kung fu movie again.

LA is a harsh city to be in when you're a little girl from the South, and you have absolutely no idea what you're doing and you are thinking, 'Am I making, have I made a massive mistake? I don't have money to move back home. My parents are not on board with this. What do I do?'

It was difficult at Atletico Madrid. It was my first experience in Europe when I went there and La Liga was hard.

In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

We were lounging around in this beautiful house in LA, and I'm coming from NY, so sometimes when we weren't working I would just sit on those folding chairs.

It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.

As grateful as I am to have been a part of a show like 'LA Ink,' I'm ready to end this chapter and want to focus on other projects now.

I begged my parents to let me go to LA for three months just to try it out. Three months turned into five years.

Labour is at its best when we understand how the country has changed and we adapt to new circumstances.

If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.

the commencement