Quotes About Transition

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.

I feel like when I went back to my original hair color, a little bit of an edgier side came out.

I was at Disney for about four years, so I made good friends there. It was a time of not a lot of creativity. It was the end of the first great era, with a few of the original animators. They called them the Nine Old Men. I learned a lot from them, but it wasn't going to be a future home for me.

I was originally going to become a biochemist, but it just got way too complicated.

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

I had originally wanted to be a lawyer. Even when I went to college and majored in engineering, I still thought I'd get a law degree. Then I started taking electrical engineering classes where I saw some of the innovation happening around computers and solid-state technology in the mid '80s.

I originally wanted to be a ballet dancer and trained for years, but when I was around 18, I realized I wasn't going to be as good a ballet dancer as I'd hoped I'd be and decided to become an actress instead.

I've always wanted to work in entertainment. My family moved to Orlando when I was 15 so I could make it.

When I moved to Orlando, it was my first time moving from Cleveland. You never know what to expect. But to be able to go and work with Shawn Michaels and learn from him - it's just mind-blowing.

I think I'll always be homesick. Even though Orlando is amazing and the sun's always out, I'll always miss Birmingham. I don't know what it is.

Logistically, moving from Miami and New Orleans all the way to Seattle isn't the easiest thing. Really, for my dog, she was kind of the biggest hurdle to get here.

I don't think I can go back to New Orleans. I don't think that's possible.

It's odd to think of yourself as an orphan at 55.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.

After the Oscar for 'Shampoo,' I had a sense, even as I was walking up to get it, that this was the height of where I was going to go as an actress. And I felt that now was the time, if I wanted a longer life in the arts, that I had to jump from acting to directing.

I talked to Oscar about Shanghai SIPG before he made the move.

It took me three and a half years to go from being sentenced in federal court to going to the Oscars.

It was funny being at high school and also grocery shopping and having a job. Other kids were going home to their parents, who were doing their laundry, and I was like, 'Wait, what?' I was super isolated. I was 16, alone in New York, and modelling.

Everything has to keep moving forward in 'Endeavour.' Otherwise, it will stagnate.

I was barely 17 when our father decided to part ways with my mother.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.