Quotes About Transition

Childhood knows what it wants - to leave childhood behind.

In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.

When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL.

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.

You've got to give up who you are now for who you want to be in the future.

I was working in a family business-the fur business - and I hated it. I was reading the New York Times want ads, and I saw a photographer's assistant job in Vogue. Things went from there.

I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for some stability. I want to stay home.

It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.

Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.

At 50, you probably get muddled? I'm the same, that's how I know? If you ever get lost, don't worry? Just change where you want to go

In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.

I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems to want me.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

Anytime you go through a divorce, you're completely lost, whether you want to admit it or not, or whether you know it or not, you're completely lost.

I'm about to graduate senior year and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't want to lose the momentum with what I'm doing now as an actress.

When I was 18, I'd be out four nights a week - I want to have that energy again but I've found I'm a bit old and ready for retirement.

The funny thing is that I'm not a planner. I have no idea what I want to do in the interim of that 50 years, but I tell ya: That's where you'll find me in my last performance.

What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

I just woke up one day when I was six and I wanted to play the violin. Then, six years later, I didn't want to play the violin, but I wanted to sing and play the guitar.

"What do I want?" is your question. And what you want is always changing with the flow. So go with the flow.

You always see people coming back to the sport, and I've always thought, 'Gosh, when you're done playing, wouldn't you just want to stay at home?