Quotes About Transition

After I finished university, I was gigging as a comedian in London as well as temping for Morgan Stanley during the day.

In the juniors, you are kind of a star, but just because you are a good junior doesn't mean you will be a good pro.

My very first role was the character of Barbara Winslow in the movie 'Marmaduke.' Up until that point, I had only done commercials. I had never done a guest star role or a series, and yet they cast me!

I wasn't ready for 'Bright Star' to end when it did.

I had to forget a lot of 'Star Wars' when I was making 'Dune.' It wasn't hard, though.

There were definitely a few ways I could have gone after 'Totally Biased' ended. One of those was getting a job at Starbucks.

Things change. You walk on the street and get a Starbucks, and things have changed by the time you come back to the office.

I don't think about stardom anymore. I'm way past that phase.

It's no new narrative to say that when people get out of child stardom, they oftentimes rebel in very serious ways.

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.

I am conscious that each film I do is in stark contrast to the earlier one.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

In September, I left the show. We were going through discussions and negotiations, and I had been on the show for about 11 years, and there were some things that I was asking for that I didn't feel were the moon or the stars.

Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Most of your life after puberty, you're either seeking to reproduce or living with the consequences of having done so. At 70, you start going back to being 11 again.

When it's time to let go, I don't look back, and I start another project as soon as possible. One thing I remind myself is that I don't want to Photoshop my past.

There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed.

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.

I started beach football in Monte Carlo when I retired from football in 1997. I liked the game very much.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.