Quotes About Transition

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

I started piano like my sisters. After one year or two, I didn't like it anymore. Then, because I like trumpet, I played the cornet. When you are 7, you can't play trumpet - you play cornet. And something didn't go well. The teacher was too hard. Too rough. Suddenly, there was this instrument, the flute, that I could immediately play.

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me.

Temporary teams of trusted people are generally sent to all Departments and to major agencies of government to assist in planning and to acquaint the incoming administration with the civil servants and bureaucracy that will remain in place in the new Administration.

Everyone who signed us to Epic, all of the people we trusted there, were let go.

It's not always an easy process when you bring in a whole new crew of guys because you trusted the last people so much that it's hard to build the same rapport again.

The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.

I think trusting people is a problem for anyone with an existing audience who wants to do another thing.

I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended.

The truth is, I'd like to be closer to my kids. I'd like to share more with them. But that's not what this time in their lives is about. This is their time to separate, to self-direct, to become independent.

I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.

The truth is that I got to Hollywood, and I didn't know what to do once I got there.

The mythology is that political change happens only in election years. The truth is you build from election to election.

I think I was about 16 when I first figured I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be a fighter pilot before that, but then I thought I don't want to kill people so that ruled that out.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here.

I would like to think I will be a guy who knows when it's time to stop. I don't want to be a guy who hung on and hung on. I do not have a goal in mind of a year or a statistic.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age is growing and changing, but each at his or her own pace.

It's 45 minutes after the game right now and I still don't want to take this jersey off. That's because I know that when I do it'll be for the last time.

Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!